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Work #677 · Late

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
1949 · English
Dystopian novel · British anti-totalitarian political fiction

Orwell's 1949 foundational dystopian novel — Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink, the totalitarian state

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Attribute 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (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

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

The dystopian 1984 totalitarian time.

Space

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

The totalitarian Oceania.

Matter

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

The embodied Winston Smith under surveillance.

Observer

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

Winston Smith's doomed rebellion.

Energy

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

Energies of totalitarian power and individual resistance.

Information

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

Foundational anti-totalitarian dystopian framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

1984 foundational for 20th-c. anti-totalitarian thought and political vocabulary.