The Bookclub and Cinema Space
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The New Dark Age by James Bridle
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Interesting to compare to this book by the same publisher https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/476-fully-automated-luxury-communism
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Japanese Cinema: Kurosawa and Miyazaki
and https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki and ...
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The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman
www.britannica.com The Seventh Seal | Swedish, Medieval, DramaThe Seventh Seal, Swedish allegorical dramatic film, released in 1957, that is widely considered director Ingmar Bergman’s greatest work and a classic in world cinema. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Antonius Block (played by Max von Sydow) is a disillusioned knight
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Cosmonaut machine-neural interface and other scenes from Tarasov films
www.paneurasian.net Wholesome wake-up call: <i>The Return</i>The dawning of the 80s saw Vladimir Tarasov put out the beautiful and wholesome short The Return ( Возвращение ) for Soyuzmul’tfil’m. The...
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The Google Guy is NOT Assange!
www.orbooks.com When Google Met WikiLeaksIn June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.
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The Waste Land Facsimile
www.faber.co.uk From the Archive: T. S. Eliot and The Waste Land | Journal | FaberWe delve into the Faber Archive to collate the many editions of The Waste Land and photograph portraits of T. S. Eliot.
Very impressive to see the original famous faded typescript and pages in T.S. Eliot's hand!
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
www.britannica.com War and Peace | Summary, Characters, & FactsWar and Peace is a historical novel by Leo Tolstoy first published serially in 1865–69. It depicts relationships between the Rostov, Bolkonsky, Bezukhov, and Kuragin families and follows their members as they fight in a war against Napoleon, marry, make and lose fortunes, and die over the course of ...
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
www.britannica.com Invisible Man | Introduction & SummaryAn introduction to and summary of the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
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Wages of Rebellion by Chris Hedges
www.hachettebookgroup.com Wages of RebellionRevolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements agains...
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Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson
www.penguinrandomhouse.com Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson: 9781400075997 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates...
Interesting scientific history. Well written.
See also https://computerhistory.org
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Dark Wire by Joseph Cox
www.hachettebookgroup.com Dark WireThe inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own tech start-up to wiretap the world, shows how cunning bot...
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Who Owns the Future (Jaron Lanier)
www.simonandschuster.com Who Owns the Future?The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening S...
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow
www.penguinrandomhouse.com The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow: 9781804292143 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA USA TODAY BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity "An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of...
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Mind of a Mnemonist
Fascinating study of a man that had prodigious powers of memory but consequently suffered from other psychological deficiencies, as is popularly know to people through the story of "Rainman."
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Gregory Bateson at Macy Conferences, Information Theory, Cybersemiotics, Biosemiotics
Macy Conferences and Cybernetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences
Biosemiotics https://link.springer.com/journal/12304
Claud Shannon https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/claude-e-shannon-founder/