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Book SynopsisAlthough the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwell's novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a huge readership and to help shape the world of 2084. Sales of Orwell's terrifying tale have recently spiked because of current worries about alternate facts, post-truth, and fake news.
1984 and Philosophy brings together brand new, up-to-the-minute thinking by philosophers about
Nineteen Eighty-Four as it relates to today's culture, politics, and everyday life. Some of the thinking amounts to thoughtcrime, but we managed to sneak it past the agents of the Ministry of Truth, so this is a book to be read quickly before the words on the page mysteriously transform into something different.
Who's controlling our lives and are they getting even more levers to control us? Is truth objective or just made up? What did Orwell get rightand did he get some things wrong? Are social media opportunities for liberation or instruments of oppress
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Are We Living in 1984? A Doubleplusgood Introduction 1. Little Knots of Resistance TRIP MCCROSSIN 2. Orwell’s Blind Spot—Non-State Enemies of Freedom ERIN NASH 3. Strength through Ignorance JAMES CONANT 4. Big Brother Ltd.—The Orwellian Nature of Neoliberal Politics DARREN BOTELLO-SAMSON AND KAYCE MOBLEY 5. Can You Be Happy under Ingsoc? JOSIP CIRIC AND BRUNO CURKO 6. Trauma and Betrayal in Nineteen Eighty-Four DANIEL CONWAY 7. Exercise as Oppression EZIO DI NUCCI 8. Collective Trance and a Hope for Sanity ISKRA FILEVA 9. Dystopian Dreams JAN FRIIS 10. Newsleep 24/7—Big Brother’s Assault on Sleep JASON MATTHEW BUCHANNAN 11. Science against Totalitarian Ideology WILLIAM GOODWIN 12. Hangings, Shootings, and Other Funny Stuff in Nineteen Eighty-Four JARNO HIETALAHTI 13. Post-Factual Democracy VINCENT HENDRICKS AND MADS VESTERGAARD 14. Could Enhancing Human Capacities Prevent Nineteen Eighty-Four from Happening? POLAROS KOI 15. Why Don’t the Proles Just Take Over? GREG LITTMANN 16. How the Mass Media Control Our Language LAVINIA MARIN 17. Controlling the Present, the Past, and the Future CHRISTOPHER MARKOU AND JAMES CROSSLEY 18. Reducing Thought to 140 Characters or Less EDWARDO PEREZ 19. Controlling People by Fallacious Reasoning ELIZABETH RARD 20. Love and Hate in Nineteen Eighty-Four TIMOTHY SANDEFUR 21. The Unmaking of the Self in Torture ALBA SANCHEZ 22. Can Thought Be Controlled Just by Controlling Language? JESSE SCHUPACK 23. The Unrelieved Bleakness of Nineteen Eighty-Four OSHRAT C. SILBERBUSCH 24. Revolutionary from the Waist Down STEFAN STORRIE 25. Big Brother, We Are Watching You! TORBJORN TANNSJO 26. Networks of Trust and Distrust MARK ALFANO 27. Oldthinkful Duckspeak Refs Opposites Rewrite Fullwise Upsub Antefiling KEITH BEGLY Author Bios References Index
