THE CANON

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FILE // D-001
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell, 1949
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
10
State control
10
Propaganda
10
Censorship
9
Technological control
7
Social control
8
PRIMARY MECHANISMControl of reality itself
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FILE // D-006
Animal Farm
George Orwell, 1945
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
4
State control
9
Propaganda
10
Censorship
7
Technological control
1
Social control
8
PRIMARY MECHANISMRevolution rewritten into tyranny
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FILE // D-014
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley, 1932
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
4
State control
7
Propaganda
9
Censorship
6
Technological control
10
Social control
10
PRIMARY MECHANISMConsent, manufactured through comfort
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FILE // D-027
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
9
State control
10
Propaganda
8
Censorship
9
Technological control
9
Social control
10
PRIMARY MECHANISMVisibility as the only law
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FILE // D-033
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, 1953
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
5
State control
8
Propaganda
7
Censorship
10
Technological control
6
Social control
9
PRIMARY MECHANISMDistraction, not force
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FILE // D-041
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, 1985
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Surveillance
7
State control
10
Propaganda
8
Censorship
9
Technological control
3
Social control
10
PRIMARY MECHANISMControl through role, not surveillance
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FILE // D-049
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess, 1962
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Surveillance
5
State control
8
Propaganda
4
Censorship
3
Technological control
9
Social control
7
PRIMARY MECHANISMFree will engineered out
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FILE // D-052
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand, 1957
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Surveillance
2
State control
8
Propaganda
6
Censorship
4
Technological control
2
Social control
6
PRIMARY MECHANISMCollapse through coerced dependency
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FILE // D-073
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, 2008
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
8
State control
9
Propaganda
10
Censorship
6
Technological control
7
Social control
9
PRIMARY MECHANISMSpectacle as pacification
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FILE // D-058
The Trial
Franz Kafka, 1925
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
6
State control
9
Propaganda
3
Censorship
5
Technological control
1
Social control
7
PRIMARY MECHANISMBureaucracy as its own verdict
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FILE // D-062
The Giver
Lois Lowry, 1993
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Surveillance
7
State control
9
Propaganda
7
Censorship
10
Technological control
5
Social control
10
PRIMARY MECHANISMSameness through erased memory
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FILE // D-067
The Children of Men
P. D. James, 1992
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SCORECARD
Surveillance
6
State control
9
Propaganda
6
Censorship
5
Technological control
4
Social control
8
PRIMARY MECHANISMAuthoritarianism born of despair
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