Journal article
Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State
Abstract
Most commentary on the Edward Snowden affair and other recent accounts of government spying leaked in the media has focused on individual privacy concerns, while overlooking how contemporary neoliberal modernity has created a social order in which new surveillance technologies grant the state a degree of power unthinkable to past generations – exceeding in reach and complexity even the totalitarian state imagined in Orwell's dystopian account, …
Authors
Giroux HA
Journal
Cultural Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 108–140
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
March 4, 2015
DOI
10.1080/09502386.2014.917118
ISSN
0950-2386