Newspeak - Newspeak is "politically correct" speech taken to its maximum extent. Newspeak is based on standard English, but all words describing "unorthodox" political ideas have been removed. [1]
Big Brother - A person or organization exercising total control over people's lives. [2]
Hyperreality - Hyperreality is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced post-modern societies. [3]
Semiotics - the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. [4]
Postmodernism - A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.” [5]
Simulation - The deliberate artificial imitation of an experience or a process with the intention of making the imitation as close as possible to the 'real thing'. Baudrillard is a key thinker in the area.
Hyperreality - a state in which images, and simulations, take on more reality than the state they represent, so that the distinction between reality and representation is no longer sustainable, A key thinker in the area is Jean Baudrillard.
Simulation - The deliberate artificial imitation of an experience or a process with the intention of making the imitation as close as possible to the 'real thing'. Baudrillard is a key thinker in the area.
Hyperreality - a state in which images, and simulations, take on more reality than the state they represent, so that the distinction between reality and representation is no longer sustainable, A key thinker in the area is Jean Baudrillard.
[1] - http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-dict.html
[2] -https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&q=Big+Brother&tbs=dfn:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=GyxbT4rOE-Sq0QWuv-SpAg&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQkQ4&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=af0f8861131591a6&ion=1&biw=1280&bih=647
[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
[4] - https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&q=semiotics&tbs=dfn:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=gitbT-rINYu00QX83LXxDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CCkQkQ4&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=af0f8861131591a6&ion=1&biw=1280&bih=647
[5] - https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww#hl=en&tbs=dfn:1&sclient=psy-ab&q=postmodernism&oq=postmodernism&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=18325l19325l3l19961l2l2l0l0l0l0l56l110l2l2l0&gs_l=serp.3..0l10.18325l19325l3l19961l2l2l0l0l0l0l56l110l2l2l0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=12662cfef75899c4&biw=1280&bih=647
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