Alex Carey (Author)

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Alexander Edward Carey ( December 1, 1922 - November 30, 1987 ) was an Australian writer and social psychologist .

biography

Prior to enrolling at London University, Carey was a sheep farmer on his family's property near Geraldton , Western Australia for ten years . From 1958 until his death he was a lecturer in psychology at the University of New South Wales .

The main subjects of his lectures and research were industrial psychology , industrial relations and the psychology of nationalism and propaganda . He was a founding member of the Australian Humanist Society in 1960 . In the 1970s Carey was active in the protest movement against Australia's participation in the Vietnam War .

Carey committed suicide in 1987. Members of his family believed it possible that he suffered substantial financial losses from the stock market crash that year and struggled with depression in his final years.

He is the father of the well-known Australian writer Gabrielle Carey.

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1988 published Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman their work Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the mass media with a dedication to commemorate Carey. Chomsky said it was Carey who inspired her work: “The real meaning of Carey's work is that it is the first and greatest effort to get part (of the history of corporate propaganda ) to the public eye. It had an enormous impact on my work. ”Journalist John Pilger called Carey a“ second Orwell ”in light of his predictions .

According to Noam Chomsky, Carey pioneered the investigation of corporate propaganda. Much of Carey's work in this area went unpublished and was interrupted by his death. In 1995 a collection of his essays (some of which were previously unpublished) appeared under the title From Democracy to Propaganda: Propaganda in the United States and Australia (University of New South Wales Press; reissued by University of Illinois Press in 1997 under the title The Risk from the Take out democracy: corporate propaganda against freedom and liberty) .

Carey worked with Noam Chomsky, studied for twelve months at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978, and met again during a sabbatical year in the United States in the last year of his life.

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Publications in book form

  • Alex Carey: Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty . University of Illinois Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-86840-358-8 .

Scientific papers

  • The Hawthorne Studies: A Radical Criticism . In: American Sociological Review , 32 (3), 1967, pp. 403-416, online .

Essays

  • Australian atrocities in Vietnam . Gould, Convenor, Vietnam Action Campaign, Sydney 1968.
  • Of professors and "pacification" . Kirrawwe, 1968.
  • Reshaping the Truth: Pragmatists and Propagandists in America . In: Meanjin Quarterly , 35 (4), 1976, pp. 370-378, online in the Internet archive .
  • The Lysenko Syndrome in Western Social Science . In: Australian Psychologist , Volume 12, Issue 1, March 1977, pp. 27-38, online in the Internet archive .
  • The Lysenko Syndrome in Western social science . In: Ainsworth, W., Willis, Q. (Eds), Australian Organizational Behavior , Macmillan, Melbourne, 1981, pp. 212-24.
  • The Ideological Management Industry . In: EL Wheelwright (Ed.), KD Buckley (Ed.): Communications and the Media in Australia . Allen and Unwin, 1987, pp. 156-179, online in the Internet archive .
  • Conspiracy Or Groundswell? In: Ken Coghill, McPhee Gribble (Eds.): The New Right's Australian Fantasy , Penguin Books, 1987, pp. 3-19, online .
  • The Orwell Diversion . Book Sellers Union, undated.
  • Corporations and Propaganda: Managing Public Opinion . 60-page manuscript from which excerpts are read: TUC Radio Newest Programs Page (accessed 17 November 2011) Archived version in: A-Infos Radio Project

Critical studies and reviews

  • William Maley: Misconceiving democracy . October 1995.

Notes and footnotes

  1. ↑ Alexander Edward Carey papers, Collection Record Details, State Library of New South Wales , http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=888148  ; service record for Alexander Edward Carey on the World War Two Nominal Roll website, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=816524
  2. ↑ pp. 28-29 in: Noam Chomsky, Class Warfare , Pluto Press, 1996.
  3. ^ A b John Pilger, Let's face it - the state has lost its mind , May 16, 2005, New Statesman , http://www.newstatesman.com/node/192496
  4. ↑ a b Gabrielle Carey, In My Father's House , Pan Macmillan Australia, 1992.
  5. ^ Noam Chomsky The Common Good , Odonian Press 1998, p. 45
  6. ^ Andrew Lohrey, in Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty , p. 5.
  7. ↑ a b Gabrielle Carey , In My Father's House , Pan Macmillan Australia, 1992, p. 261.

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personal data
SURNAME Carey, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carey, Alexander Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer and social psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1922
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1987