Dr Emrah Atasoy (Heritage Collections Postdoctoral Fellow, 2026) would like to share his recent publication, titled "How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now"
Read it here: https://theconversation.com/how-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four-predicted-the-global-power-shifts-happening-now-273122
The article, originally published in The Conversation, has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish. The Independent, Scroll.in, MENAFN - The Middle East North Africa Financial Network, and Yahoo News re-published the article.
Nineteen Eighty-Four has had extraordinary longevity as a go-to text for political commentary. There are many explanations for its staying power, but right now a key feature of it may be its relevance to thinking about both repression of dissent and Newspeak-style propaganda in many individual countries – and the unsettling geopolitical tensions in the world at large.
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