Orwell
I Revisited My Favourite Books From High School and They're Still Sick
"Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis is as powerful as ever.
The xx Is Here for When Ambien Doesn't Work
Last night at Coachella, the British trio whispered very loudly. One couple gave each other hand jobs under a blanket and 50,000 people very mildly went wild.
'Orwell' Is a Game About Surveillance That Misses The Details
Orwell wants to ask hard questions about the surveillance state, but it refuses to deal with the complex realities of our society.
'Orwell' Is a Game About Surveillance That Misses The Details
Orwell wants to ask hard questions about the surveillance state, but it refuses to deal with the complex realities of our society.
Orwell's Orwellian Estate Is Allegedly Trying to Stop People from Using the Number '1984'
It's just like the book! Sort of!
Who's Afraid of the Surveillance State?
The struggle to rein in the NSA lacks wide support because the surveillance state is too insidious an enemy for the public to recognize.
Nationalist Policy Is Turning English Class Into a Joke
Michael Gove is replacing To Kill a Mockingbird with the writings of Meera Syal.
Are US Cops in Canada Another Step Towards a North American Union?
You know that conspiracy theory they threw out in Zeitgeist and on CNN about the US absorbing Canada and Mexico into a North American Union without borders? While it may seem like an unlikely prospect to most, the last couple of weeks have proven how...
Old People Need to Stop Telling Us That the Internet Is Ruining the World
Baroness Susan Greenfield, a controversial neuroscientist, has an idea. It’s been hard to pin down exactly what that idea is, because rather than publishing a proper explanation of it, she’s spent the last few years promoting scare-stories about the...
In Vietnam, "Depraved" Blogging Could Get You Locked Up for a Decade
On May the 16th, another blogger, Dinh Nguyen Kha, was sentenced to ten years in jail for "distributing anti-State propaganda" and "deliberately causing injuries."
Mobile Trojans Rear Their Head, Repressive Governments Go For Their Checkbooks
FinFisher is a powerful piece of spyware long admired within cybersecurity circles. It’s capable of logging keystrokes, accessing and exporting a compromised computer’s files, and intercepting encrypted data such as Skype calls.
A DIY Solution To the Surveilled Life: Noam Chomsky and Brian Eno in 'Article 12'
In the hubbub over ‘the end of anonymity’ comes Article 12, a documentary that proposes a solution to the soft-Orwellianism of modern life.