{"id":4589,"date":"2012-01-02T05:27:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:10","slug":"building-sinew-into-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/building-sinew-into-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Building sinew into language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>> There are innumerable examples of this, but my favorite is George Orwell\u2019s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Before this novel\u2019s rise to prominence, any discussion of intrusive surveillance was singularly bloodless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>> But a science fiction writer, Orwell, has given us a marvelous and versatile vocabulary word for discussing this: now we can say, \u2018\u2018Your surveillance idea is a bad one because it is Orwellian\u2019\u2019 \u2013 we can import all of that novel and its horrors with one compact word&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>> It\u2019s this trick of putting blood and sinew into the argument that is the best that science fiction has to offer. It\u2019s this that makes science fiction more relevant in an era of technological upheaval and social chaos. &#8211; [Cory Doctorow](http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/Perspectives\/2012\/01\/cory-doctorow-a-vocabulary-for-speaking-about-the-future\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> There are innumerable examples of this, but my favorite is George Orwell\u2019s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Before this novel\u2019s rise to prominence, any discussion of intrusive surveillance was singularly bloodless&#8230; > But a science fiction writer, Orwell, has given us a marvelous and versatile vocabulary word for discussing this: now we can say, \u2018\u2018Your surveillance idea&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/building-sinew-into-language\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[379],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1c1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}