University of Sydney

SSC Seminar Series: Peter Marks

Mac-Corry Room D411 (Sociology Lounge)

12:30 - 1:30 pm

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...