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14 Sep 2007, 8:59 am
See also: Book Review: Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 2:58 am
Wood of the federal appeals court in Chicago wrote that surveillance using global positioning system devices would “make the system that George Orwell depicted in his famous novel, ‘1984,’ seem clumsy. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 4:00 pm
Some years later, however, I encountered George Orwell’s essay Why I Write, and discovered that it was possible to be very intentional about the process. [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 4:25 am
In his 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell saw the problem clearly. [read post]
13 Jul 2023, 3:43 am
The 155-page opinion, which could hinder the government’s efforts to counter false and misleading online speech about issues like election interference and vaccine safety, is laced with lofty references to George Orwell and quotations from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, making it more reminiscent of a civics essay than a federal judicial opinion. [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 6:46 am
As much as the world would like the Olympics to be devoid of politics, as George Orwell once wrote, sport “is war minus the shooting. [read post]
21 Jul 2013, 8:17 am
., such personal, en masse tracking makes George Orwell's novel 1984 seem quaint by comparison. [read post]
19 Jun 2018, 4:45 am
______________________* And — one more time — I've got to remind you of what George Orwell said about dying metaphors:Dying metaphors. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 5:30 pm
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949) [cd unabridged]3. [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 4:36 am
More here and from Wired here.Talking of hypocrisy (or here perceived hypocrisy), according to Torrent Freak, a man called Josh Hadley who was attempting to sell T-shirts featuring the phrase “1984 is already here” has been contacted by the London based Estate of writer George Orwell, author of the dystopian nightmare "1984", for infringing their copyright and right of publicity. [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 1:16 am
But that argument has one fundamental flaw: short of fictional mind control in George Orwell's 1984, where thoughts were potential crimes and the Thought Police used surveillance devices, no dictatorship has ever been able to completely supress opinions: one could always say something in the privacy of one's home. [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 1:34 am
For the texting illiterate, that’s text-speak (somewhat similar to Newspeak from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four) for “Are you ready for text to 911? [read post]
21 May 2013, 10:33 am
If he does agree, he ought to take his use of such a term as some evidence of a problem with the concept whose definition he is offering, for reasons along the lines of those offered by George Orwell in his classic essay "Politics and the English Language." [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 6:02 pm
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 in democratic countries like Paraguay. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 7:05 am
That’s because no matter how great our technological edge, or how distant our operators, or how certain our “near certainty,” war is and will always remain the province of George Orwell’s proverbial “rough men” and women who stand ready to inflict violence on those who would do us harm. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 8:30 am
. *** Across college campuses these days, small knots of worried students and their professors have been gathering for public readings of George Orwell’s 1984—a not-too-subtle effort to link Trump’s America to the dystopian world so cannily sketched by one of Britain’s leading anti-fascists. [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 8:16 am
Ironically, "1984" by George Orwell was rescinded from people’s ebooks in 2009. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 5:14 pm
Please feel free to call or email me with any updates on the issue.Thanks again.Rick Freedman* George Orwell, Animal Farm. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 2:16 pm
Literature has warned of this power, books like Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and George Orwell’s “1984,” but “sensible” people, not much moved by imaginative writing, are always telling us that we have little to worry about. [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 10:40 am
Anonymous speech has a long history in democratic societies, particularly when used by those whose politically contentious views might have put them ill-at-ease amongst their contemporaries (like Mark Twain, Voltaire, and George Orwell—all pen names). [read post]
