Varda Burstyn: concluding remarks: the importance of a "critical culture"

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Brave New 1984: Visionaries of the 21st Century?Subscribe

Brave New 1984 is a new, innovative web-video project that uses the ideas of George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to examine contemporary global issues and realities.

Brave New 1984 is a new, innovative web-video project that uses the ideas of George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to examine contemporary global issues and realities. Both of these novelists penned the respective works in the first half of the 20th century, yet in many ways, the trends of the dystopian futures that these authors foresaw are today a reality.

Brave New 1984 intends to be a point of access towards larger contemprary global issues and concerns, ranging from social conditions to militarism to globalization to consumption to inequity (etc.), to give but a few examples. Please refer to the articles and videos that we have uplaoded on the sidebar for more information and resources. We strongly invite you to partcipate in this project by uploading media to this site, or sending us your comments, reflections and ideas- in the form a video or an essay, for example- as to whether our world is like the world depicted in Orwell's '1984' or Huxley's 'Brave New World'?

We are asking for your reflections as to whether we are living in a 'Brave New 1984.'