Table of Contents

Acknowledgments


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

About the Author

Ezio Di Nucci is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Before that he was Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Duiburg-Essen in Germany. He is the co-editor with Filippo Santoni de Sio of Drones and Responsibility (Routledge, 2016). He has also written several books, including Ethics without Intention (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Mindlessness (Cambridge Scholars, 2013). Stefan Storrie, currently an independent scholar, has held the position of Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He is the author of a book on Berkeley's Three Dialogues being released by Routledge in 2018. He has also edited a collection on the Three Dialogues, which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in early 2018.