Nineteen eighty-four: Orwell and our future

Contents......Page 8
Dedicatory Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
PART I: POLITICS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION......Page 28
A Defense of Poesy (The Treatise of Julia)......Page 30
Doublespeak and the Minority of One......Page 46
Of Beasts and Men: Orwell on Beastliness......Page 55
Does Literature Work as Social Science? The Case of George Orwell......Page 66
PART II: TRUTH, OBJECTIVITY, AND PROPAGANDA......Page 88
Puritanism and Power Politics during the Cold War: George Orwell and Historical Objectivity......Page 90
Rorty and Orwell on Truth......Page 103
From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak......Page 129
PART III: POLITICAL COERCION......Page 142
Mind Control in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: Fictional Concepts Become Operational Realities in Jim Jones’s Jungle Experiment......Page 144
Whom Do You Trust? What Do You Count On?......Page 172
PART IV: TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY......Page 198
Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire......Page 200
On the Internet and the Benign Invasions of Nineteen Eighty-Four......Page 229
The Self-Preventing Prophecy; or, How a Dose of Nightmare Can Help Tame Tomorrow’s Perils......Page 239
PART V: SEX AND POLITICS......Page 248
Sexual Freedom and Political Freedom......Page 250
Sex, Law, Power, and Community......Page 259
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Catholicism, and the Meaning of Human Sexuality......Page 278
CONCLUSION......Page 294
The Death of Pity: Orwell and American Political Life......Page 296
Contributors......Page 318
C......Page 322
F......Page 323
J......Page 324
N......Page 325
P......Page 326
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T......Page 328
Z......Page 329