The Western Round Table on Modern Art (1949) featured artists and thinkers (all men) including Marcel Duchamp, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the composers Darius Milhaud and Arnold Schoenburg, and the anthropologist Gregory Bateson spea…When Bateson wrote his report calling for the establishment of CIA and the pursuit of “indirect methods of warfare”, the 1942 Cerebral Inhibition Meeting, OSS ‘black propaganda’ work in the South Pacific, and the Truth Drug and hypnosis exp…
Milton H. Erickson
psychoanalyst · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Milton H. Erickson appears here primarily as a hypnotherapist and experimental subject in Cold War-era CIA research on altered states and mind control, specifically through work coordinated by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. His inclusion in the course readings maps the entanglement of cybernetics and systems theory with military applications and the manipulation of consciousness, showing how mid-century scientific networks weaponized psychological technique. The fragmented reference suggests Erickson's methods became instrumental to thinking about indirect control and information warfare that would later inflect both AI development and artistic practices concerned with agency and influence.
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