"Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A."

Title"Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A."
Year for Search1964
AuthorsDisch, Thomas M[ichael](1940-2008)
Secondary TitleFantastic Stories of Imagination
Volume / Edition13.1
Pagination114-26
Date PublishedJanuary 1964
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia in which schizophrenia is seen as a form of social organization. The "thesis" reports on the themes from Orwell's 1949 Nineteen Eighty-four, "Freedom Is Slavery", "Ignorance Is Strength", and "War Is Peace" and adds "Life Is Death" and "Love Is Hate".

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his Fun With Your New Head (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 177-92. UK ed. of the book as Under Compulsion (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968), 181-96.

Holding Institutions

MoU-St, NLS

Author Note

(1940-2008)

Full Text

1964 Disch, Thomas M[ichael] (1940-2008). “Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 13.1 (January 1964): 114-26. Rpt. in his Fun With Your New Head (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 177-92. UK ed. of the book as Under Compulsion (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968), 181-96. MoU-St, NLS

Dystopia in which schizophrenia is seen as a form of social organization. The “thesis” reports on the themes from Orwell’s 1949 Nineteen Eighty-four, “Freedom Is Slavery”, “Ignorance Is Strength”, and “War Is Peace” and adds “Life Is Death” and “Love Is Hate”.