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Surveillance
An annotated collection of 2 books on surveillance, spanning 1949 to 1977. Featuring works by George Orwell, Philip K. Dick — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell, 1949
Orwell's dystopian novel remains the foundational text for understanding how information architecture becomes an instrument of power. The mechanisms of Newspeak—systematic reduction of vocabulary to constrain thought—pre…
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick, 1977
Dick's semi-autobiographical novel presents a surveillance apparatus that destroys the very agents operating it — Bob Arctor spies on himself without recognising the subject, a structural metaphor for what happens when m…