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Do any of you know of any books dealing with the issue of being spied/controlled without knowing it/living in a controlled reality?
Or just something about paranoia and the idea of an omnipresent power
I was just thinking something about this back when i came home from the bus and i thought all these themes would make very good themes for a mystery story, so i wanted to know if there are any.
I searched in google but couldn't find anything quite like what i'm thinking (that in fact i may not be explaining 100% well)
i just found shitty YA novels
so yeah, i'd appreciate any insight or if anyone has a good recommendation about something along these lines.
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>>9543484
(i'm op) i also thought i myself could write something about it as i liked the ideas but first i'd like to know more and make them a little more concrete before seriously writing something
i hate dystopian/sci-fi cliches but i think something good could be made out of this if
addressed the right way (more psychological than technological or fantastic)
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bruh how old are you? dont they make you read Kafka in high school?
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>>9543484
PHILLIP K. DICK
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>>9543815
Man I've read most everything from Kafka, I also have some of his diaries and a book with some of his less known stories
i like him but uh, that type of literature is not really what i'm talking about, i think kafka is more on the absurdist side of things sometimes desu (not that i don't like him)
but yeah. I also don't want Orwell, Huxley, or any of those authors that are more well known and that, not to say they're bad, but don't seem even in the slightlest disturbing/psychologically thrilling now considering how much their argument has been over-exploited.
I want something more "concrete" with its argument than kafka, yet still mysterious, disturbing, etc.
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Pretty cliche i know, but IT is my best bet
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>>9543828
only interesting recommendation atm so far
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>>9543484
Fucking Gravity's Rainbow. This is literally what it's about. It takes place in the "real world" but the main character is controlled bypsychological conditioning and The Powers That Be
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>>9543484
As previously mentioned Philip K Dick, particulary A Scanner Darkley, Time Out of Joint and Ubik.
Maybe some JG Ballard.
If youre into philosophy Foucault's Discipline and Punish has exactly what you want but its fairly dense and oblique
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The Crying of Lot 49
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>>9543484
You aren't being spied on if you know you're being watched.
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>>9543484
i don't know if this is what you mean:
society of the spectacle - guy debord
the crowd - Gustave le bon
propaganda - Edward bernays
we - zamyatin
Simulacra and Simulation - baudrillard
any literature on advertising, marketing, or psychological operations and propaganda in military/secret service history
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