The Future of Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age by Hazel Henderson

“…Their vast profitability rests on capturing huge caches of private personal information on their registered users by offering “free” services. This Orwellian data-trove is then sold to advertisers, thousands of third-party marketing firms, politicians and too often to officials of repressive regimes. …”
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Locating Nation, State, and Identity in the Global Food Debate by Nadra Hashim

“…So far, government oversight prevails, as McMahon describes what could be an Orwellian vignette emerging in western Canada. Canada's governing authorities have developed a system to monitor farm animals. …”
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Fiction May Confront Theories. Locating Determinism of the Newspeak in G. Orwell’s 1984 by Cătălin Constantinescu

“…Also, the possibility of identifying an Orwellian model as opposed to the Sapir-Whorf and the linguistic models deserves examination. …”
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La lengua inglesa como neolengua by Fernando BELTRÁN LLAVADOR

“…The term «newspeak» is defined, similitudes of it are found today in the language of advertising in Spain, its origins are traced back and antecedents are located in the history of English literature, while the presence of new modalities of the Orwellian reductionist language, such as «nukespeak», is illustrated within the language of warfare. …”
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La vigilancia en la obra de Philip K. Dick: Identidades, deseos y conflictos sociales / Surveillance in the work of Philip K. Dick: Identities, desires and social conflicts by Nelson Arteaga Botello

“…The faces of vigilance in Dick’s work allow us to understand how it develops in democratic and differentiated societies, unlike the metaphor of the Orwellian “Big Brother” developed in a context where an ideology and a totalitarian political regime prevail.…”
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Wiersze „suchego pogromu” – Marzec ’68 w poezji polskiej (rekonesans) [The poetry of the “dry pogrom” - March 1968 in Polish poetry (a reconnaissance)] by Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany

“…Michał Głowiński’s formula of “March talk” has been used to interpret the poetics of the poetry about March 1968, with reference to Orwellian Newspeak and Klemperer’s LTI. Finally, in the conclusion, a question is posed of whether the poems of the dry pogrom are a “poetry of dry despair,” a term used by Julia Hartwig to describe Paul Celan’s poems, as they speak about impossible liquids – blood and tears.   …”
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The force awakens: Birth of national surveillance state by Avramović Dragutin S.

“…Although the very name announces quite clearly an Orwellian scenario, Balkin is in doubt which path that kind of state will follow - the authoritarian or the democratic one. …”
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The Arnoldian element in Yeats's A Vision by Murphy, J

“…I argue that Yeats’s considerable indebtedness to Arnold 1) both spurs and troubles readings of Yeats as a poet of decolonization; 2) merits attention in the long-running ‘Orwellian’ debate over Yeats’s alleged fascism, coinciding with Yeats’s eugenics; 3) illuminates <em>A Vision</em> as an ‘anxiety of influence’ text in which Yeats ‘kills’ his critical fathers Arnold and J.B. …”

The End of the End of History by H.P. McDonald

“…The use of the ―war on terror‖—a phony war that should never have begun, is making converts to the cause of fundamentalist Islam, and squanders tax revenues—by the Bush administration heralds the end of the end of history and a new use of Orwellian tactics by the right. Reports of the end of history have been ―greatly exaggerated‖; the religious right is a serious challenge and even a threat to liberal democracies.…”
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Future scenarios. A cinematic perspective by François Penz

“…Most famously The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998), shot in the existing town of Seaside Florida, is an Orwellian big brother vision of the world. Worth also mentioning is Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997), shot in Frank Lloyd Wright’s last building project, Marin County Civic Center (CA, USA), which tackles the emergence of a disturbing biological future.  …”
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