1984 and philosophy is resistance futile?
Are we living in 1984? / Stefan Storrie and Ezio Di Nucci. Part I. War is peace. Revolutionary from the waist down / Stefan Storrie and Diana Adela Martin -- Physical jerks ungood / Ezio Di Nucci -- Why don't the proles just take over? / Greg Littmann -- Non-state enemies of freedom / Erin J....
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Sprache: | eng |
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Open Court
2018
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Schriftenreihe: | Popular culture and philosophy
volume 116 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Are we living in 1984? / Stefan Storrie and Ezio Di Nucci. Part I. War is peace. Revolutionary from the waist down / Stefan Storrie and Diana Adela Martin -- Physical jerks ungood / Ezio Di Nucci -- Why don't the proles just take over? / Greg Littmann -- Non-state enemies of freedom / Erin J. Nash -- Ministry of truth handbook: excerpt on the strategic use of fallacious reasoning for thoughtcrime prevention / Elizabeth Rard -- Big Brother Ltd. / Darren Botello-Samson and Kayce Mobley. Part II. Freedom is slavery. Big Brother, we're watching you! / Torbjörn Tännsjö -- Human enhancement for freedom / Polaris Koi -- 24/7 newsleep / Jason Matthew Buchanan -- Love, truluv / Timothy Sandefur -- When cruelty is not enough / Daniel Conway -- No crack in the wall? / Oshrat C. Silberbusch -- Hangings, shootings, and other funny stuff in 1984 / Jarno Hietalahti -- The seduction of Winston Smith / Mark Alfano -- Happy in Oceania? / Josip Ćirić and Bruno Ćurko. Part III. Ignorance is strength. Bad faith and make-believe / Iskra Fileva -- Through a telescreen darkly / Lavinia Marin -- Thoughtcrime or feelingcrime? / Alba Montes Sánchez -- Nineteen Eighty-Four's religion / James Crossley and Christopher Markou -- Wheat can become rye! / William Goodwin -- Controlling thought through tweets / Edwardo Pérez -- The irrelevance of truth / Jan Kyrre Berg Friis -- oldthinkful duckspeak refs opposites rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling / Keith Begly. Part IV. Epilogue. Post-factual democracy / Vincent F. Hendricks and Mads Vestergaard. Although the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a huge readership and to help shape the world of 2084. Sales of Orwells terrifying tale have recently spiked because of current worries about alternate facts, post-truth, and fake news |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index |
Beschreibung: | xii, 304 pages 23 cm |
ISBN: | 9780812699791 978-0-8126-9979-1 |