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Huxley vs. Orwell: The Webcomic
Stuart McMillen’s webcomic does a marvelous job of adapting (and updating!) Neil Postman’s famous book-length essay, Amusing Ourselves to Death, which argues that Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future...
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Newt’s Children, Dystopian Visions, and Greenzone America
Newt Gingrich, a sour, puffy-faced man who somehow retains a platform for his regressive ideas, ruffled a few metaphorical feathers this weekend when he proposed that failing schools (populated mostly...
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“Brave New World Is Our Idea of Heaven”— A Passage from Michel Houellebecq’s...
The following passage from Michel Houellebecq’s novel The Elementary Particles is part of a dialog between half brothers Michel and Bruno. Otherwise, context unimportant: When Bruno arrived at about...
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Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Full 1980 BBC Adaptation)
Tagged: Aldous Huxley, BBC, Brave New World, Film, TV
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Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Orwell’s 1984
[Ed. note: The following citations come from one-star Amazon reviews of George Orwell's novel 1984. I think 1984 is an important dystopian work (although I think Huxley gave us a better book and a more...
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Huxley vs. Orwell: The Webcomic
Stuart McMillen’s webcomic adapts (and updates_ Postman’s famous book-length essay, Amusing Ourselves to Death, which argues that Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future in Brave New World was...
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Infinite Infanticide (Aldous Huxley’s Ape and Essence)
A few weeks ago, I saw (and loved) Children of Men, and it reminded me of one of my favorite books of all time, Ape and Essence by Alduous Huxley. If you’ve only read one book by Huxley, chances are it...
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We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s
“Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans” is a compelling essay by Henry Farrell published today in The Boston Review. From the essay: This is not the dystopia we were promised. We are not learning to love...
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A review of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s prescient dystopian novel We
Set millennia in the future, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1921 dystopian novel We tells the story of a man whose sense of self shatters when he realizes he can no longer conform to the ideology of his...
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