This article is a reflection on Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the famous novels by George Orwell, British writer and journalist. It shows through techno-critical analysis that, although novel science-fiction in that it part dystopian approach to literary genre, also inspires expresses current techno-scientific innovations emblematic figure Big Brother. Moreover, just as Brother only symbol INGSO...

This essay discusses the relation of surveillance in the modern world to that in the surveillance society of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. We establish a link between the motivations of the governments in the two worlds, and use this link to investigate the role of surveillance in each society. We further analyze the two primary types of modern surveillance — internet tracking and data collect...

Propaganda and surveillance are pervasive in contemporary society. Extensive literatures have developed around each. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is an important point of reference in both literatures. Orwell takes both propaganda and surveillance to extreme limits: total surveillance and total propaganda. Writing them large he brings important aspects of each into sharp relief, which i...