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In This Game That We’re Playing: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Video Games

Department: Informatics

Quarter: Fall 2019

Seminar Date: Nov 22, 2019

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Soraya Murray, Ph.D.

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UC Santa Cruz

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Professor Soraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar who focuses on contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in contemporary art, film and video games. Murray holds a Ph.D. in art his…

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Traces of George Orwell’s critiques of totalitarian society, in both blunt and subtle forms, exist throughout video games. Major themes of dystopia, surveillance culture, technologies of control, aut…

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