‘The object of power is power’: tautology, paranoia, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
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DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2018.1508066
Abstract: ABSTRACT Building on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's claim that paranoid modes of reading are ‘strongly tautological,’ this essay begins its exploration of the relationship between tautology and paranoia by suggesting that tautological forms of expression can… read more here.
Keywords: tautology; paranoia; george orwell; orwell nineteen ... See more keywords
‘The few cubic centimetres inside your skull’: a neurological reading of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
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DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2017-011404
Abstract: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell’s political satire on state surveillance and mind control, was written between 1946 and 1948, at a time when new thinking in forensic psychiatry coincided with scientific breakthroughs in neurology to… read more here.
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