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3 Jun 2015, 5:55 pm
Hemos leído sobre ello en 1984 de George Orwell, lo hemos escuchado de regímenes opresivos, y ahora lo estamos presenciando en países democráticos como Paraguay. [read post]
29 May 2015, 4:00 am
Or perhaps we will be condemned to living in the constant present, and George Orwell’s chilling scenario in 1984 will have come to pass. [read post]
27 May 2015, 11:00 am
Daniel Solove (George Washington University Law School) is compiling a list of privacy and security related novels. [read post]
26 May 2015, 4:00 am
There were books that I took the opportunity to re-read and discuss with my son: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and George Orwell’s Animal Farm. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 2:38 pm
By bringing together legal and art history academics, it will establish a new network of scholars from a variety of disciplines—art, history, law, anthropology—interested in the intersection of images and law.The last decade has seen much research into the intersection of the visual and the legal, yet the impact on the practice of contemporary legal scholarship has been limited, and there is little methodological reflection on the roles that images and imagery have played in scholarship… [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 6:00 am
All kinds of personal information was allegedly recorded, in a scenario reminiscent of George Orwell’s book 1984, as the court noted. [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 3:33 am
El mito del zombi en Haití y su reaparición en la cultura popular, en filmes y novelas inspiradas en el ya clásico Night of the Living Dead de George Romero, bien puede aludir a los efectos nefastos del capitalismo global. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 12:45 am
And Owen Jones’s “The establishment and how they get away with it” – again a ‘reach-for book’ for people with my leanings but I remain to be convinced of Mr Jones, who the book’s jacket describes as “Our generation’s George Orwell”, which is I think stretching it a bit. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 9:40 am
George Orwell criticized liberals for apologizing for Communism; he continues to inspire me to persist in my position that Islam unreformed, when put into practice, leads to a dystopia. [read post]
13 Mar 2015, 8:26 am
But to hear opponents tell it, it's actually a government takeover straight out of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 9:16 am
We've read about it in George Orwell's 1984, we've heard about it being practiced by oppressive regimes, and now we're witnessing it first-hand in a democratic country such as Paraguay. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 9:26 am
" Please use the previous post as the main discussion thread and use this post only for George Orwell and the Hitler comparison. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 3:30 am
Brian Bix In “Misused Concepts and Misguided Questions,” Jim Dwyer is working within an important tradition of thinkers (going back at least to George Orwell’s famous essay, “Politics and the English Language”) who correct the sloppy arguments, rhetoric, and terminology the rest of us make, to bring us collectively towards clearer moral and policy arguments. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 1:15 pm
Dangerous subjects in Oceania, a region created by Orwell in his novel 1984 in a constant state of war, consciously or unconsciously manifest too much autonomy. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 9:52 am
Few things demonstrate the widespread digitization of our society more than the dramatic transformation of mobile telephones over the past two decades and the increasing reliance upon these revolutionary devices in our business and personal lives. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 8:08 am
It gets worse: Pew Research Internet Project: The Future of Privacy: Digital Life in 2025: “George Orwell may have been an optimist” ‘”…. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 8:08 am
It gets worse: Pew Research Internet Project: The Future of Privacy: Digital Life in 2025: “George Orwell may have been an optimist” ‘”…. [read post]
1 Jan 2015, 4:04 pm
Nick Clark – The Independent: ” From George Orwell, who insisted all his manuscripts be preserved, to Charles Dickens who wanted no memorials put up to his life, history buffs can now explore the wills of some of the most influential figures of the past 150 years at the click of a mouse. [read post]
31 Dec 2014, 9:44 am
In George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, Oceania was ruled by a character called “Big Brother,” who oversaw the ruling government that held total control over the citizens “for its own sake. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 8:13 pm
He added a quip from a colleague who has watched the rise of surveillance in all forms, who proclaimed, “George Orwell may have been an optimist,” in imagining “Big Brother. [read post]
