THE CANON

Dossiers, not book reports

EACH ENTRY SCORED ACROSS SIX MECHANISMS OF CONTROL
FILE // D-001

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell, 1949
Surveillance
10
State control
10
Propaganda
10
Censorship
9
Technological control
7
Social control
8
PRIMARY MECHANISMControl of reality itself
FILE // D-006

Animal Farm

George Orwell, 1945
Surveillance
4
State control
9
Propaganda
10
Censorship
7
Technological control
1
Social control
8
PRIMARY MECHANISMRevolution rewritten into tyranny
FILE // D-014

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley, 1932
Surveillance
4
State control
7
Propaganda
9
Censorship
6
Technological control
10
Social control
10
PRIMARY MECHANISMConsent, manufactured through comfort
FILE // D-027

We

Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921
Surveillance
9
State control
10
Propaganda
8
Censorship
9
Technological control
9
Social control
10
PRIMARY MECHANISMVisibility as the only law
FILE // D-033

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury, 1953
Surveillance
5
State control
8
Propaganda
7
Censorship
10
Technological control
6
Social control
9
PRIMARY MECHANISMDistraction, not force
FILE // D-041

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood, 1985
Surveillance
7
State control
10
Propaganda
8
Censorship
9
Technological control
3
Social control
10
PRIMARY MECHANISMControl through role, not surveillance
FILE // D-049

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess, 1962
Surveillance
5
State control
8
Propaganda
4
Censorship
3
Technological control
9
Social control
7
PRIMARY MECHANISMFree will engineered out
FILE // D-052

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand, 1957
Surveillance
2
State control
8
Propaganda
6
Censorship
4
Technological control
2
Social control
6
PRIMARY MECHANISMCollapse through coerced dependency
FILE // D-073

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins, 2008
Surveillance
8
State control
9
Propaganda
10
Censorship
6
Technological control
7
Social control
9
PRIMARY MECHANISMSpectacle as pacification
FILE // D-058

The Trial

Franz Kafka, 1925
Surveillance
6
State control
9
Propaganda
3
Censorship
5
Technological control
1
Social control
7
PRIMARY MECHANISMBureaucracy as its own verdict
FILE // D-062

The Giver

Lois Lowry, 1993
Surveillance
7
State control
9
Propaganda
7
Censorship
10
Technological control
5
Social control
10
PRIMARY MECHANISMSameness through erased memory
FILE // D-067

The Children of Men

P. D. James, 1992
Surveillance
6
State control
9
Propaganda
6
Censorship
5
Technological control
4
Social control
8
PRIMARY MECHANISMAuthoritarianism born of despair