Soon these days to publish more frequently, influenza, boredom, comfort of watching almost everything from the iPhone-mail, facebook, even a page ...-.
Finally, recent recommendations step by reading
History Zero by William Gibson .
sure many of you know by Neuromancer, the supposed bible of cyberpunk tribe, when they still knew how to read and not limited times to see Jan Matrix, without even delving into its philosophical ...-
This novel opens in a way the "Bigend trilogy" begun with Pattern Recognition, a translator of Minotaur, illumined through the crack, the owner decided the English translation "World Mirror", in reference to the protagonist's perception of American daily life London and continued with Spook Country ("Land of Spies" drinking translation, but loses the double meaning of "enchanted region"). Zero
History seems to me excellent. Of those novels that are eaten (he took more than 2 weeks to read it, little by little, by the way). Spook Country better, maybe not that Pattern Recognition, it is very reminiscent of the latter, and novelty has been somewhat off, after more than 7 years since the publication of Pattern Recognition, but still excellent.
nothing to do with Neuromancer, is set in the present (2009-2010), like the previous two (which not conform strictly a trilogy, because they can read perfectly separate, but some recurring characters in Spook Country History and Bigend Zero comes in all three, although not strictly a supporting character). The argument reminds a little of Pattern Recognition and even Count Zero and All Tomorrow's Parties, author of the novels before the turn of the millennium: a girl has to find a seemingly nondescript, hidden, commissioned by a patron unlimited resources for those who are looking for the star will be particularly important. By the way, she will give a significant shift in his life, sublimating things that marked, sometimes unknowingly. Canvas
And, best of William Gibson, a fresco of our reality shown from angles that suggest an intuition of the numinous ...
The Sorrows of the Empire ("Threats of Empire Chalmers Johnson [???]), of . True Bible
"how to dismantle U.S. imperialism, revealing its origins (the dawn of the twentieth century, not after the fall of the Berlin Wall and after Clinton's two terms) and its mechanisms. "
Dating, documentation, accurate tests, referrals, and a very agile and engaging style, going over the empire of more than 1500 American bases (800 outside USA), the establishment of these, privatization and outsourcing of ALL U.S. military logistical activities in all these 1500 bases (the masterpiece of Dick Cheney in their various mandates from Reagan and Bush), and the isomorphic correspondence between American foreign policy of the neocons, and paths pipelines and oil wells (eg, reviews how Condoleezza negotiated a pipeline with the Taliban, Hamid Karzai was an advisor how other oil ... things ye shall see, Sancho) ...
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, if not MUST.
Globalistan, Pepe Escobar .
Despite the name, the author is a reporter commissioner (but apparently a lot of freedom for his reporting on the world geopolitical most relevant) and Asia Today, and writes in English.
is a kind of sum of cards in the author's journey around the world, but structured in chapters that end in-stan (Pipelineistan, Chiitistán, corporatist, etc. ...), so as to show, as I pointed my previous post on the Visions Mapping, which maps typical world of nation-state forms of colors hide a world of unimaginable complexity, which in no way could reflect these maps.
A world-ours-in which a description that shows the unity of the oil supply network, try to overlay that map with that of the U.S. bases, and you have earned a little surprise, "or unity information flows between Sunnis and / or Shia, is much more useful and descriptive maps of nation-state ...
A geopolitical analysis of the world in late 2006 was quite successful and entertaining add specific comments of the author, collected and observed during his travels, that show things can only reflect someone who has actually seen, and which are highly enlightening (as compared for example the huge mosque was built by the late Turkmen autocrat with a nuclear reactor, or that Almaty is the mecca for future oil traders SUVs and sports are just for her, with a parabolic solar roofs ...).
Highly recommended.
I do not know if English translation (I wonder), but there is an update of this year, Obama Does Globalistan (as if to say that Obama also plays Globalistan ...), I have not yet begun.
Great Design Leonard Mlodinow (with the signing of Stephen Hawking, if not hire a good advertising agency, at this rate the only thing the future will remember about him is he said he did not recommend contact with aliens more advanced than us Thanks to this "truño a priori" of film have announced last weekend, Skyline).
is a popular book, which reviews the last thing we know about what the universe and reality, but I'm enjoying it very much because the review that makes science the endless "straw" that put all these books always - is very pleasant and unusual. We'll see how it ends. At the moment much emphasis on "the hypothesis of a operator "is not absolutely necessary (Laplace's phrase), which already has several positives. And yes, I'm reading in English because that is what I have given.
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