Advisory literature addressed to rulers — from Arthashastra through Islamic nasihatname to Machiavelli.
Dickens, Orwell, le Carré, Spielberg — fiction that holds a mirror to social and political reality.
Poe, Hitchcock, Lynch, Nolan — fiction that destabilizes the boundary between mind and world.
Fiction and film of lost identity: Ludlum's Bourne, Watson, Dashner, Nolan's Memento, Proyas's Dark City, Brand's Unknown, Parker's Angel Heart, Scorsese's Shutter Island.
Lippmann, Bernays, Ellul, Herman and Chomsky: manufacture and engineering of consent; propaganda as a need of mass society.
Skinner, Pettit: liberty as non-domination, recovering the neo-Roman tradition.