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“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.” - Winston Smith. NewSpeak is an auto-generative project created by Immo Blaese for Anticensor, the 10th Web Biennial at the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum. Based on various antonyms, NewSpeak juxtaposes tagged images from Flickr and Tweets with opposite meanings....

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George Orwell Explains How “Newspeak” Works, the Official Language of His Totalitarian Dystopia in 1984

It’s easy to hear “Newspeak,” the “official language of Oceania,” as “news speak.” This is perfectly reasonable, but it gives us the impression that it relates strictly to its appearance in mass media. Orwell obviously intended the ambiguity—it is the language of official propaganda after all—but the portmanteau actually comes from the words “new speak”—and it has been created to supersede “Oldspeak,” Orwell writes, “or Standard English, as we should call it.”

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exhale - inhale

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knowledge - ignorance

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exhale - inhale

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The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False

THE SHODDY AND misleading Guardian article, written by Ben Jacobs, was published on December 24. It made two primary claims — both of which are demonstrably false. The first false claim was hyped in the article’s headline: “Julian Assange gives guarded praise of Trump and blasts Clinton in interview.” This claim was repeated in the first paragraph of the article: “Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has offered guarded praise of Donald Trump. …”

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more - less

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friend - enemy

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man - woman

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guilty - innocent

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guilty - innocent

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ally - enemy

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grief - joy

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The judges who blocked Brexit: One founded a EUROPEAN law group, another charged the taxpayer millions for advice and the third is an openly gay ex-Olympic fencer

Daily Mail

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ally - enemy

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Our world is strange and often fake and corrupt. But we think it’s normal because we can’t see anything else. HyperNormalisation - the story of how we got here.

Adam Curtis

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grief - joy

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Adam Curtis: another manager of perceptions

Jonathan Cook