Two Eagerly Awaited Books This Fall

[Spock]

"Lakota America" by Pekka Hamalainen. He wrote "Comanche Empire." I can't wait to read this one.

https://www.amazon.com/Lakota-America-H ... 198&sr=1-1

Even more eagerly, I am waiting for "Google Archipelago" by an ex Marxist/postmodernist/social justice or whatever he was professor.

I love "Gulag Archipelago" so I find the play on words especially attractive.

>>>"Google Archipelago argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power. The technologies of Big Digital not only amplify, extend, and lend precision to the powers of the state, they may represent elements of a new corporate state power."<<<

I can't help but think of Chesterton's "Hudge and Gudge" when I run across stuff like this. Hudge and Gudge are large corporations (Gudge) and government (Hudge) acting as 2 sides of the same coin.

In my view, Chesterton was prescient in that description

[silverscreenselect]

Not a book, but there's a movie coming out at Christmas time that might interest you.

It's called 1917 and it's about the trench warfare in World War I. The movie focuses on two British soldiers who are given a dangerous mission, to go behind enemy lines to reach a unit that's lost communication and call off what could be a disastrous attack. The stars are Richard Madden from Game of Thrones and Andrew Scott (Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes TV series), but the supporting cast includes Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch. The writer/director is Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition and the last two James Bond movies).

Here's the trailer:

[Spock]

Not a book, but there's a movie coming out at Christmas time that might interest you.

It's called 1917 and it's about the trench warfare in World War I. The movie focuses on two British soldiers who are given a dangerous mission, to go behind enemy lines to reach a unit that's lost communication and call off what could be a disastrous attack. The stars are Richard Madden from Game of Thrones and Andrew Scott (Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes TV series), but the supporting cast includes Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch. The writer/director is Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition and the last two James Bond movies).

Here's the trailer:

I hadn't seen news about this one. Thanks.