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George Orwell’s 1984 is an apocalypse of the total byzantinization of culture, a time in which totalitarianism alone reigns supreme because the profusion and effective centralization of electronic monitoring renders its power absolute. Apart from the book being a prophecy, Orwell might have intended to warn the world by a wrathful jeremiad that if not prevented, the macabre process of the totalitarization of human culture and life will be inevitable.
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Shoham, S.G. (1985). Alienation and Apocalypse. In: Shoham, S.G., Rosenstiel, F. (eds) And He Loved Big Brother. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07831-8_14
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