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An interview with Stephen Fry

by Andrew Hazlett February 23, 2010

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Brian Eno says farewell to the uncool

by Andrew Hazlett December 14, 2009

It almost sounds as though Brian Eno has been reading Ted Gioia.  Here’s Eno on “the death of uncool”: We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s [...]

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Ted Gioia on the Birth and Death of the Cool

by Andrew Hazlett December 10, 2009
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Has coolness runs its course?  Are we living in a post-”cool” culture? Musician and writer Ted Gioia talks about his new book, The Birth and Death of the Cool in episode 102 of The New Modern podcast.  You can listen using the embedded player above or via iTunes.  [...]

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Tyler Cowen: Information Revolution, Autism, Digital Fragmentation, and the New Cultural Order

by Andrew Hazlett December 10, 2009

Huffduff it [huh?] Episode 101 of The New Modern podcast is an interview with Tyler Cowen about his fascinating new book Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World. In addition to his renown as a professor of economics at George Mason University, Tyler Cowen is familiar to many habitual web [...]

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