Category: George Orwell

13/09/2013 edward snowden | human-rights Feitosa-Santana

How Laura Poitras helped Edward Snowden

How Laura Poitras, who responded to an anonymous email from Edward Snowden, helped him reveal secret NSA documents By Peter Maass “”Last January, Laura Poitras received an anonymous email asking her to send her her public encryption key. Laura had been working on a documentary about surveillance and espionage for nearly two years now, and […]

21/07/2013 1984 George Orwell | Aldous Huxley Admirable New World | Cinema | edward snowden | entertainment | House of Cards | human-rights | internet | Orange is the New Black | politics | society | technology Feitosa-Santana

Netflix: The Big Brother and the Entertainment Manipulation

by Kate Epstein The Snowden leaks and ensuing debates about our government, big data, and privacy have led to more Orwell allusions than I’ve heard in all of my (admittedly post-1984) life. It’s hard not to compare the constant surveillance of twenty-first-century America to the ubiquitous presence of Big Brother in the prescient 1949 novel. […]

21/07/2013 Cinema | edward snowden | entertainment | House of Cards | Orange is the New Black Feitosa-Santana

Netflix: When Entertainment Dulls Us

Netflix and Espionage – The Brave New World of the Database  By Kate Epstein, on Counterpunch “[Richard] Snowden’s leaks and the ensuing debate about our [US] government, database, and privacy led to more allusions to [George] Orwell than I had ever heard in mine (admittedly post-1984 ) life. It’s hard not to compare the constant […]