Episode 258: Superman during The Purge
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather discuss fictional dystopian surveillance states, recourse to works of fiction in political discourse, PRISM, and The Purge.
Spoilers for George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Further Reading
- Big Brother is Hugging You
- Hedley Lamarr from Blazing Saddles vs. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr](Hedy Lamarr)
- The Purge
Alternative Titltes for This Episode
- It’s Watchmen All The Way Down
- TCP/IP Werewolf Communications
- The Surveillance State that Makes Us Buy Cereal
- Big Wrather is Watching
- In The 24th Century, Nobody Hates Each Other Because Everybody Hates Each Other
- I Just Purged All Over Myself
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