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Work #1043 · Late

Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley
1958 · English
Essay collection · Twentieth-century political-cultural criticism

Twenty-six years later — Huxley's sober reassessment argues the dystopia is arriving faster than he had imagined

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Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.

Attribute Brave New World Revisited (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Reason
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Brave New World Revisited

1958 American moment of postwar consumer capitalism.

Space

Brave New World Revisited

America and Europe as immediate political-cultural spaces.

Matter

Brave New World Revisited

Embodied populations of consumer-democratic societies.

Observer

Brave New World Revisited

Huxley as elder political-cultural commentator.

Energy

Brave New World Revisited

Cultural-political-economic energies of consumer capitalism.

Information

Brave New World Revisited

Systematic catalogue of dystopian-tendential conditions.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Brave New World Revisited

Prescience about consumer-capitalist soft-power totalitarianism increasingly recognised in social-media and digital-surveillance age.