1984 is back. George Orwell’s nightmare vision of governmental surveillance, secrecy, and deception clearly resonates with the revelations first leaked to the Guardian by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. Indeed, it is practically impossible to find an account of the Snowden affair without at least one ‘Orwellian’ adjective dropped into the mix. Sometimes it co ... (read more)
James Der Derian
James Der Derian is Michael Hintze Chair of International Security at the University of Sydney, where he directs the Centre for International Security Studies. He is author of Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network (2009) and writer–producer of the documentary film Project Z: The Final Global Event (2012).