Orwell Slater, Ian
Orwell,
2003, c1985, 20030926, 2003, 2003-09-25
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"In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people ..." So begins one of Orwell's most famous essays. In Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One Ian Slater explains why Orwell was hated in ...Moulmein and takes us on a fascinating intellectual journey that traces the development of Orwell's political and social criticism. Using a uniquely thematic approach, Slater also examines Orwell's self-criticism and, finally, the hidden and corrosive dangers of state and self-imposed censorship in a security-obsessed world. Slater's tour de force, critically acclaimed by those on both the left and the right, moves from Orwell's schooldays in England and his time as a policeman in Burma, through his years as a struggling poet, dishwasher, tramp in Paris, and tutor, schoolmaster, and bookshop assistant in London, to his critical experiences during the Spanish Civil War. Slater takes us beyond the events of Orwell's life to the bitter satire of the Russian Revolution in Animal Farm and the horrifying terror of Room 101 in 1984, Orwell's final novel, and shows that 1984 is as much a warning about the state of mind we call totalitarianism as it is a prophecy of an actual political state. As the war on terrorism continues and governments demand ever-increasing power over the individual in order to combat terrorism, Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One, reissued during Orwell's centenary, warns us that "he who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."
Hugh Willmott's classic 1993 JMS article, ‘Strength is Ignorance; Freedom is Slavery’, has greatly influenced how we understand culture management. It draws parallel's with George Orwell's Nineteen ...Eighty‐Four to reveal the totalitarian aspirations of ‘corporate culturalism’. While it is sometimes said that employee resistance is missing in Willmott's account, I argue that it is implicitly pervasive, prefiguring subsequent investigations of ‘micro‐emancipation’ in management studies. The recent waning of scholarly interest in this type of resistance, however, also points to the contemporary relevance of Willmott's analysis. Emergent forms of corporate regulation utilize ‘biopower’ rather than just cultural conformity, rendering micro‐emancipation inadequate, but inspiring other types of dissent.
George Orwell, a pioneer literary figure in the field of English literature. His essay The Sporting Spirit deals with the status of sports in the current scenario. Sport is a physical activity which ...helps to maintain the physique and psyche in a proper manner. The trend of playing games is twisted in the modern and post-modern era which the human community degrades itself. Money manipulates the whole culture in the social set up. The game between two national teams induces bitterness and inculcate nationalism. This paper focuses on the consequences of the sports activities that make friction between two national teams through the views of the author. Keywords: George Orwell, The Sporting Spirit, Sports, Nations, Animosity, Culture, Society
George Orwell is not generally remembered for his views on strategy. Nevertheless a careful reading of his written work reveals a coherent appreciation of war’s strategic dimension. For Orwell, war ...is a necessary adjunct to politics, and the utility of strategic action should be based on rational considerations of cost and benefit. He rejected pacifism and self-imposed restraints on warfare on the basis that such positions proceeded from unexamined emotional commitments, and were neither instrumentally nor morally sound. He also maintained that the enemy’s political values are an essential input into effective strategic calculations. On this latter basis he criticised the strategic prescriptions of H. G. Wells and B. H. Liddell Hart for limited war with Nazi Germany.
George Orwell's political writing was adept at capturing crises. Totalitarianism, nationalism, colonialism, class, poverty, the Cold War, and the early atomic age all cast a sinister shadow during ...his short lifetime. Within international relations, and coupled to his own life experiences, these dangers caused an obvious preoccupation with certain states and entities most notably the USSR, Spain, India, France, and Europe amongst others. The United States somewhat sat out of Orwell's orbit which is paradoxical considering the country's seismic role in a twentieth century marred by upheavals and ruin. This paper seeks to address this gap by examining what his essays, journalism, and letters tell us about how the US and specifically its national identity was fashioned. The findings concern culture and language, wealth and race, and power and empire. As such, despite America initially featuring as peripheral to his concerns, its literary prowess, economic might, and international influence all inspired Orwell to produce a number of important observations on American national identity.
Cash, including electronic cash, instead of laborious and expensive in-kind relief provision of food etc, to people in humanitarian crises such as disasters and wars. Giving up clinical medicine (I ...didn’t like the sight of blood), to get into global public health and then international humanitarian work. Instead of reading the latest issue first, as a lesser mortal would have done, our indomitable bastion of the empire read his newspapers (after getting them ironed, of course) in strict order, starting with the oldest. ...he was systematically informed—three months late, but at least consistently late.
Science fiction and science education: 1984 in classroom de Oliveira Moraes, Isabelle; Aires, Rafaela Magalhães; de Souza Góes, Andréa Carla
International journal of science education,
10/2021, Volume:
43, Issue:
15
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Big Brother, newspeak, doublethink, vapourised people and thought police became worldwide famous expressions. 1984 novel portrays a nightmare society controlled by information manipulation and by ...suppression of both history and science. This study aimed to investigate the impact of using the 1984 dystopian novel associated with socio-scientific issues (SSI) in the development of moral values and reasoning skills of high school students. An interdisciplinary didactic program encompassing the Arts, Philosophy and Biology subjects was elaborated to stimulate discussion and debates around SSIs. The didactic intervention was evaluated through a questionnaire and the 1984 film debate. The students were able to explore scientific concepts to discuss social issues and correlated the allegory of the cave topic with alienation and the 1984 novel. The students also recognised that the approached issues are related not only to their life in society but to existential human conditions. We claim that dystopian texts allied to SSI debates can function as creativity triggers to stimulate students developing the inquiry skills and dispositions needed to express themselves, challenging fake news and uncovering new possibilities to apprehend the truth.
Established in 2018, the SSN Arts Prize is a bi-annual award that celebrates the provocative and timely work of international surveillance artists today. The winners of the SSN Arts Prize for 2020 ...and 2022 are sava saheli singh (2020) and Elham Fatapour (2022). Honorable mentions were awarded in 2020 to Pip Thornton and Florian van Zandwijk, and in 2022 to Wendy Wong and Jessica-Maria Nassif. Juried by a committee of members of the Surveillance Studies Network editorial team, the prize is awarded to artists and creative practitioners whose work considers surveillance in sophisticated, creative, and new ways that promote audience engagement. The winners and honorable mentions are celebrated at the biennial Surveillance Studies Network conference. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the rescheduling of the 2020 Surveillance Studies Network conference, they are celebrating two years of the award in this one edition. The winners of the 2020 and 2022 SSN Arts Prizes were awarded this prize in Jun 2022 at the 9th biennial Surveillance Studies Network hosted by Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Better Futures Needed James, Simon J
Modern fiction studies,
06/2022, Volume:
68, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Both of the books reviewed consider the contemporaneity and the current relevance of the literary utopia and dystopia. Adam Stock's Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought traces the history ...of the dystopia by examining both well-known and less familiar twentieth-century literary texts, demonstrating how they provoke a counterfactual reflection on the social and cultural politics of their readers' present. Caroline Edwards's Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel focusses on more recent literary fiction, tracing themes of hopefulness and community as forms of resistance to hegemonic capitalism.
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