Министерство правды. Как роман «1984» стал культурным кодом поколений

¹⁰ “Oceania (the US and Britain)” – Guardian, December 31, 2002.

¹¹ “Orwellian euphemisms” – David Fricke, “Bitter Prophet”, Rolling Stone, June 26, 2003.

¹² “The war is waged” – Fahrenheit 9/11 (dir. Michael Moore, 2004).

¹³ “there is a war on” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 60.

¹⁴ “the reality-based community” – Ron Suskind, “Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush”, New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004.

¹⁵ As a popular slogan put it– Daniel Kurtzman, “Learning to Love Big Brother/George W. Bush Channels George Orwell”, SFgate.com, July 28, 2002.

¹⁶ “ ‘Orwell’ has been used” – Scott Lucas, Orwell (Haus, 2003), p. 138.

¹⁷ “Shakespeare doesn’t have the moral authority” – John Rodden, Every Intellectual’s Big Brother: George Orwell’s Literary Siblings (University of Texas Press, 2006), p. 159.

¹⁸ “V was designed to warn” – Mihir Bhanage, “Never thought V would become a symbol of global rebellion”, TNN, March 1, 2017.

¹⁹ “Orwell imagined a huge change” – Philip Roth, “The Story Behind ‘The Plot Against America,’ ” New York Times, September 19, 2004.

²⁰ “Any time there’s a new invention” – Author interview with Charlie Brooker for Empire, London, July 7, 2016.

²¹ “not the advancement of science” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. 8.

²² “The Ministry didn’t do this to us” – Fahrenheit 451 (HBO, 2018).

²³ “Maybe Apple’s ‘1984’ ad” and “wasn’t a rupture” – Rebecca Solnit, “Poison Apples”, Harper’s, December 2014.

²⁴ “SECRETS ARE LIES” – Dave Eggers, The Circle (Penguin, 2014), p. 303.

²⁵ “a new and glorious openness” – Ibid., p. 491.

²⁶ “What happens to us” – Margaret Atwood, “When Privacy Is Theft”, New York Review of Books, November 21, 2013.

²⁷ “warned us of the danger” – Edward Snowden, Alternative Christmas Message, Channel 4, December 25, 2013.

²⁸ As President Obama– Press conference, California, June 7, 2013.

²⁹ “very Orwellian” – All In With Chris Hayes, MSNBC, June 10, 2013.

³⁰ “So, Are We Living in 1984?” – Newyorker.com, June 11, 2013.

³¹ “So George Orwell was wrong” – Tilman Baumgaertel, “ ‘I am a communication artist’: Interview with Nam June Paik”, Rhizome.org, February 5, 2001.

³² “completely, irredeemably, outrageously wrong” – Peter Huber, Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest (Free Press, 1994), p. 235.

³³ “the proles do the watching” – Ibid., p. 228.

³⁴ “a development that promises” – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, with an introduction by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin, 2003), p. xxv.

³⁵ “We have entered the age” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. xxi.

³⁶ “from Lisbon to Vladivostok” – Quoted in Snyder, p. 82.

³⁷ “If the state so wishes” – Quoted in Gessen, p. 249.

³⁸ “show business and propaganda” – Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia (Faber & Faber, 2015), p. 7.

³⁹ “the very language and categories” – Ibid., p. 77.

⁴⁰ “Versionland” – Guardian, September 15, 2018.

⁴¹ “They don’t require belief ” – Anne Applebaum, “A Warning from Europe: The Worst is Yet to Come”, The Atlantic, October 2018.

⁴² “the hottest literary property in town” – Hollywood Reporter online, April 3, 2017.

⁴³ “the clock is already striking thirteen” – Variety.com, March 21, 2017.

⁴⁴ “It went from zero” and following quotes– Author interview with Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, London, July 5, 2018.

⁴⁵ “how do you begin to talk about?” – Icke and Macmillan, p. 17.

⁴⁶ “How do we know the Party fell?” – Ibid., p. 95.

⁴⁷ “What year is it?” – Ibid., p. 80.

⁴⁸ “The people are not going to revolt” – Ibid., p. 89.

⁴⁹ “I think dad would’ve been amused” – Daily Record, February 26, 2017.

⁵⁰ “a continuous frenzy” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 220.

⁵¹ “something cruel” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, March 24, 1944, CW XVI, 2441, p. 133.

⁵² “may quit relying” – Robertson.

⁵³ “crying hysterically” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 14.

⁵⁴ “The People Believe What the Media Tells Them They Believe” – Nicholas Thompson and Issie Lapowsky, “How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America”, Wired.com, December 17, 2018.

⁵⁵ “I believe the biggest risk” – Andrew Marantz, “Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet”, New Yorker, March 19, 2018.

⁵⁶ “One of the biggest challenges” – My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, Episode 1, Netflix, 2018.

⁵⁷ “the Ministry of Truth with ML systems” – Twitter, @alexstamos, October 7, 2017.

⁵⁸ The Washington Post calculated – At https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database.

⁵⁹ “Truth isn’t truth!” – Meet the Press, NBC, August 19, 2018.

⁶⁰ “Many dangerous ideas” – Dee Rees in Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (Gollancz, 2017), p. 54.

⁶¹ “What you’re seeing” – Donald Trump speech to Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, July 24, 2018.

⁶² “The party told you to reject” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 84.

⁶³ “one is reminded of what Orwell got right” – Adam Gopnik, “Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Trump’s America”, Newyorker.com, January 27, 2017.