1984 and Philosophy

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.

• AcknowledgmentsAre We Living in 1984? A Doubleplusgood Introduction1. Little Knots of ResistanceTRIP MCCROSSIN2. Orwell’s Blind Spot—Non-State Enemies of FreedomERIN NASH3. Strength through IgnoranceJAMES CONANT4. Big Brother Ltd.—The Orwellian Nature of Neoliberal PoliticsDARREN BOTELLO-SAMSON AND KAYCE MOBLEY5. Can You Be Happy under Ingsoc?JOSIP CIRIC AND BRUNO CURKO6. Trauma and Betrayal in Nineteen Eighty-FourDANIEL CONWAY7. Exercise as OppressionEZIO DI NUCCI8. Collective Trance and a Hope for SanityISKRA FILEVA9. Dystopian DreamsJAN FRIIS10. Newsleep 24/7—Big Brother’s Assault on SleepJASON MATTHEW BUCHANNAN11. Science against Totalitarian IdeologyWILLIAM GOODWIN12. Hangings, Shootings, and Other Funny Stuff in Nineteen Eighty-FourJARNO HIETALAHTI13. Post-Factual DemocracyVINCENT HENDRICKS AND MADS VESTERGAARD14. Could Enhancing Human Capacities Prevent Nineteen Eighty-Four from Happening?POLAROS KOI15. Why Don’t the Proles Just Take Over?GREG LITTMANN16. How the Mass Media Control Our LanguageLAVINIA MARIN17. Controlling the Present, the Past, and the FutureCHRISTOPHER MARKOU AND JAMES CROSSLEY18. Reducing Thought to 140 Characters or LessEDWARDO PEREZ19. Controlling People by Fallacious ReasoningELIZABETH RARD20. Love and Hate in Nineteen Eighty-FourTIMOTHY SANDEFUR21. The Unmaking of the Self in TortureALBA SANCHEZ22. Can Thought Be Controlled Just by Controlling Language?JESSE SCHUPACK23. The Unrelieved Bleakness of Nineteen Eighty-FourOSHRAT C. SILBERBUSCH24. Revolutionary from the Waist DownSTEFAN STORRIE25. Big Brother, We Are Watching You!TORBJORN TANNSJO26. Networks of Trust and DistrustMARK ALFANO27. Oldthinkful Duckspeak Refs Opposites Rewrite Fullwise Upsub AntefilingKEITH BEGLYAuthor BiosReferencesIndex

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