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1984: Behind the Scenes

Interesting article in the Telegraph on the biographical connections in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

New books

Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon, Liquid Surveillance (2013, Polity)

Ian Hodder, Entangled: An Archeology of the Relationships Between Humans and Things (2012, Wiley)

McKenzie Wark, Telesthesia: Communication, Culture and Class (2012, Polity)

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Given my interests in both old books and surveillance, this seemed a natural (if expensive) addition to the collection.

First printing, first American edition.