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25 Oct 2012, 5:15 pm
(The company did it before, ironically, with George Orwell’s 1984, back in 2009.) [read post]
7 Aug 2010, 9:53 am
Judt (we exchanged emails once), he often comes to mind as one of few intellectuals today who most closely embodies that traits of another intellectual giant of our times, George Orwell. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 4:22 am
Except that you don’t see Home Depot setting up websites that selectively quote George Orwell to make their point. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 7:34 am
Merpel notes that the Orwell Prize is named for George Orwell, author of Animal Farm, a satire at the end of which it becomes impossible to distinguish the formerly revolutionary animals from the humans against whom they rebelled. [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 9:58 pm
In that sense it was a very influential work for me because I started thinking that he was a very attractive man and I ended up thinking that he was a very unattractive politician whose self-justification for the terror and the dictatorship and the ultra centralist discipline that he imposed didn’t have much merit.The fourth item is George Orwell, 1984, and how can one argue with 1984? [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 9:07 am
In 1947, English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair 1903 – 1950) and author of Animal Farm: A Fairy Story and Nineteen Eighty-Four, his most famous works, wrote an essay titled Politics and the English Language. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 10:00 pm
And before we go… chief blog editor Adam Wagner has just been nominated for the highly prestigious Orwell prize for political writing, which scans books, journalism and the blogosphere, for work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 7:32 am
The United Kingdom is a surveillance state, one far beyond the world envisioned by George Orwell. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 7:01 am
Among those who have had books banned in Texas prisons are Jon Stewart, William Shakespeare, Sojouner Truth, Juan Williams, Jenna Bush, 50 Cent, John Grisham, Noam Chomsky, Stephen King, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Gore Vidal, George Orwell, Gustave Flaubert, George Carlin, and Sister Helen Prejean. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 4:22 am
President, meet my friend George Orwell, inventor of Newspeak, who memorably wrote, "Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.'' New bushwa same as the old bushwa? [read post]
12 Dec 2013, 9:41 am
What has become painfully clear is that the NSA and the intelligence community at large have created a surveillance apparatus that puts even the dystopic creation of George Orwell's "1984" to shame. [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 7:09 am
No, it couldn’t be over because this was a 1984 George Orwell war with no end. [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 5:42 am
" (Here's George Orwell on dead metaphors.)5. illuminate — Now, it's about giving light. [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]
2 Oct 2016, 7:44 pm
Fictions of state surveillance and secret intelligence also bleed into real politics, as with George Orwell, who helped underground translators and publishers devise ever more ingenious ways of smuggling his political dystopia 1984 into Poland, and the 2007 release of MI5 files that exposed the widespread practice of spying on writers. [read post]
25 Sep 2012, 1:47 pm
Image of 1984 cover art from http://spacekimono.wordpress.com/about/ blog post about author George Orwell. [read post]
16 Nov 2014, 1:43 pm
As George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. [read post]
17 Nov 2013, 12:51 pm
***This calls for a 2-part reading from George Orwell's "1984":The heirs of the French, English and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the like, and had even allowed their conduct to be influenced by them to some extent. [read post]
27 Sep 2013, 8:10 pm
George Orwell Conflito: Guerra Civil Espanhola O Sr. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 6:04 am
” I love George Orwell, yet believe this definition of journalism can end up producing a quite distorted picture of the world. [read post]
