Thomas Sheridan joins us to talk about the 2010 film The Social Network, which tells the story of the origins of facebook. We discuss the class struggle portrayed in the story, the mechanism by which the film could have been influenced by the CIA, the archetypes in the finely-produced melodrama that plays out, the CIA’s silicon valley network which is conspicuous by its absence from the narrative, and the meaning of the movie’s dark and brooding tone. We also get into some unusual areas, including the mystery of the sub sandwich.
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The Social Network (2010)
How team of geeks cracked the spy trade
How a ‘deviant’ philosopher built Palantir, A CIA funded data-mining juggernaut
Palantir, the War on Terror’s secret weapon