Rabble: Alexandra Grant

Rabble: Alexandra Grant Century of the Self Until I saw Adam Curtis’s 2002 documentary Century of the Self, I had never given much thought to the genesis of public relations. The field of public relations was invented, it turns out, by Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays. In the period after the first World War, when many were questioning the human drive to violence, Bernays understood the power of both wartime propaganda and Freud’s theories of the unconscious to manipulate public opinion.  Rabble, an imprint of Insert Blanc Press, is co-edited by Holly Myers and Mathew Timmons. Rabble prints single author issues of critical essays of about 1500 words on a subject of the author’s choosing. The subject will be an artwork (or series of artworks), but broadly defined: could be visual art, literature, music, architecture, film, design; could be contemporary or historical. The essay will be printed in pamphlet form, with room for a couple full color images, and distributed