ICE is about to start buying dog robots, bringing to mind the mechanical hound in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
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Fahrenheit 451, ICE, and MAGA Book Suppression
Fahrenheit 451’s firemen behave a lot like ICE agents while the book suppression is becoming increasingly familiar.
Fahrenheit 451 Anticipated AI
In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury anticipated a number of AI features.
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Time to Reread Fahrenheit 451
With attacks on school libraries and school curricula, it’s time to read “Fahrenheit 451” again.
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A President Who Hates Books
No president has been so adverse to reading as Donald Trump, whose contempt for books conjures up images of “Fahrenheit 451.”
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Political Extremism and Literary Classics
Hints of David Mamet’s and Ray Bradbury’s rightwing extremism can be found in their best known works.
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Ignoring Books–Another Way to Burn Them
Read, reflect, act. That is my vision for how we should respond to literature. Therefore I was pleased to see a version of this advice appearing in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I’m reading Bradbury’s dystopia because I will be leading a discussion of it tom0rrow as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big […]
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