Peter Marks, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Sydney
The Meme They Couldn’t Hang: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and surveillance theory
The rocketing US sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four after Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations underline its centrality in the public imagination, against its more complex relationship with surveillance theory, from Rule’s foundational work to Liquid Surveillance (2013). This talk assesses its relevance to contemporary surveillance and to the “cultural turn” in surveillance studies.
Everyone welcome!
The Surveillance Studies Centre
c/o David Murakami Wood
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa
Canada