This work cites "The Closing of the Universe of Discourse" and "The Closing of the Political Universe" as ways in which modern society is being formed.
Its preface claims that this work at times will seem to vacillate between two contradictory hypotheses: one is that society will be able to contain itself, and the other is that containment will force society to explode. In the last part of its first section, this work uses a pair of analyses on the labor of the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Company to argue that language is altered by the media in order to make radical thought impossible. This work cites "The Closing of the Universe of Discourse" and "The Closing of the Political Universe" as ways in which modern society is being formed. This work posits that negative thinking is a necessity against positivism and attacks consumerism by outlining a plan for a "Great Refusal." For 10 points, identify this study of the "ideology of advanced industrial society," which argues that technology and the accumulation of capital produce the title persona, a work of Herbert Marcuse.
Its preface claims that this work at times will seem to vacillate between two contradictory hypotheses: one is that society will be able to contain itself, and the other is that containment will force society to explode.
One Dimensional Man