core
June 15, 2019, 4:46pm
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on the So Th...
We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. It was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York, with the original Russian text first published in 1952. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It influenced the emergence of dystopia as a literary genre. George Orwell said that Aldous Huxley's 1931 Brave New World must be partly d
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by the story's protagonist. Huxley followe...
"The Minority Report" is a 1956 science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Fantastic Universe. In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs. Plugged into a great machine, these "precogs" allow a division of the police called Precrime to arrest suspects before they can commit any actual crimes. When the head of Precrime, John Anderton, is himself predicted to murder a man whom he has never heard of, Anderton is convinced a great conspirac...
The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network. It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool, perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's co The t...
The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, white supremacist, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. Offred is the central character and narrator and one of the "handmaids", women who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders", who are the ruling class in Gilead.
The novel exp...
Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press. The book explores the theme of government surveillance of electronically stored information on the private lives of citizens, and the possible civil liberties and ethical implications of using such technology.
The story is set in the year of 1996. When the United States National Security Agency's (NSA) code-breaking supercomputer TRANSLTR encounters a revolutionary new ...
The Dispossessed (in later printings titled The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. It achieved a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction due to its exploration of themes such as anarchism and revolutionary societies, capitalism, utopia, individualis It fe...
The books in this gategory provide a lightweight introduction to the world of privacy and surveillance.
Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security is a book written by Daniel J. Solove regarding the nothing to hide argument regarding privacy. It was published by Yale University Press in 2011.
The book, written for a general audience, includes some material that had been adapted by law review articles written by Solove. Raymond G. Kessler wrote in the Law and Politics Book Review that "the average reader may find some discussions of the law difficult to follow." The book has t...
"Cada Ă©poca tiene su propio fascismo, y el nuestro difiere en muchos aspectos del que describe Orwell en los cuarenta (...). A nosotros nadie nos obliga a tener la telepantalla encendida. Nosotros mismos nos esmeramos en llevarla a todas partes,...
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594206016
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316047/dark-mirror-by-barton-gellman/9781594206016/
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is a 2014 non-fiction book by American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. It was first published on May 13, 2014 through Metropolitan Books and details Greenwald's role in the global surveillance disclosures as revealed by the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. The documents from the Snowden archive cited in the book are freely available online.
The book consists of five chapters; Cont...
A Sociedade Vigilante reúne um conjunto de ensaios de proeminentes cientistas sociais, nacionais e internacionais, que procuram problematizar a implementação e legitimação de vários mecanismos de controlo vigentes na sociedade contemporânea. Aqui são...
Database Nation is a non-fiction book written by Simson Garfinkel. Published in January 2000, Database Nation provides the reader with a clear understanding of what privacy is today. Starting with a broad definition of privacy, he goes in depth on various new technologies and practices that have reshaped our lives, at the cost of privacy. Garfinkel goes into great detail to describe each type of privacy intrusion. The current system prevents the individual from resisting; the individual can Th...
These books have a tendency to age quickly, so be mindful of the publishing date of the books your read
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lontra
September 24, 2019, 5:44pm
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Se fores preso, camadarahttps://www.marxists.org/portugues/marighella/1951/preso/se.htm
(If they arrest you, Comrade)
It’s a guide for the hidden communists, if they happened to be arrested and interrogated. I’m sure there’s other communist and carbonara bibliography regarding privacy.
And perhaps you would like to peruse the biblio of this masters:
https://academiamilitar.pt/mestrado-em-guerra-da-informacao.html
(masters in information war by the military academy of lisbon)
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core
September 24, 2019, 6:17pm
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Oh wow. It’s quite a strong one. I you happen for find one about privacy in those archives where you found this one, put it up here
I wasn’t able to find that master’s bibliography. Do you know where I can find it? War is not really my thing (quite the opposite), but there might be something cool in the suggested books.
vasilis
December 15, 2019, 11:32pm
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Where do you usually get these books?
I usually I like to buy these anonymously because nobody has the right to know what I’m reading. And I tend to prefer physical copies which I usually get through Fnac.
If I can’t find a physical copy, then I pirate them.
Once I know a way to get them legitimately without associating my name with that purchase, I will get them legit online. But until then…
Surveillance studies - David Lyon
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core
June 5, 2020, 10:48am
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Added these to the list following suggestions here on the forum.
"Cada Ă©poca tiene su propio fascismo, y el nuestro difiere en muchos aspectos del que describe Orwell en los cuarenta (...). A nosotros nadie nos obliga a tener la telepantalla encendida. Nosotros mismos nos esmeramos en llevarla a todas partes,...
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594206016
core
August 1, 2020, 7:31am
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It’s now on my reading list! Thanks for the suggestion
I’ve also added it to the first post (under “non-fiction > understanding the modern context”)
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