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The Architecture of Surveillance: Reading the Stasi Archives as Found Fiction

The archives of East Germany’s Stasi are among the strangest literary objects of the twentieth century. Not because they were intended as literature.Quite the opposite. They...
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Why Every Totalitarian Regime Eventually Builds a Television Studio

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The Memory Hole Is Real, and It Is Currently Operating: A Reading of How Regimes Erase the Recent Past

There is a moment in Nineteen Eighty-Four when Winston Smith quietly alters a newspaper record and drops the original into a slot that leads...
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The Architecture of Surveillance: Reading the Stasi Archives as Found Fiction

The archives of East Germany’s Stasi are among the strangest literary objects of the twentieth century. Not because they were intended as literature.Quite the opposite. They...

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The Architecture of Surveillance: Reading the Stasi Archives as Found Fiction

The archives of East Germany’s Stasi are among the strangest literary objects of the twentieth century. Not because they were intended as literature.Quite the opposite. They...

Why Every Totalitarian Regime Eventually Builds a Television Studio

Power, on its own, is never quite enough. It can compel obedience, but it cannot guarantee belief. It can impose silence, but it cannot...

The Memory Hole Is Real, and It Is Currently Operating: A Reading of How Regimes Erase the Recent Past

There is a moment in Nineteen Eighty-Four when Winston Smith quietly alters a newspaper record and drops the original into a slot that leads...
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The Architecture of Surveillance: Reading the Stasi Archives as Found Fiction

Charis Tom -
The archives of East Germany’s Stasi are among the strangest literary objects of the twentieth century. Not because they were intended as literature.Quite the opposite. They...

Why Every Totalitarian Regime Eventually Builds a Television Studio

Charis Tom -
Power, on its own, is never quite enough. It can compel obedience, but it cannot guarantee belief. It can impose silence, but it cannot...

The Memory Hole Is Real, and It Is Currently Operating: A Reading of How Regimes Erase the Recent Past

Charis Tom -
There is a moment in Nineteen Eighty-Four when Winston Smith quietly alters a newspaper record and drops the original into a slot that leads...