The solid world
Interview with Bertrand Russell, from 1952 Interesting perspective on the changes felt in the world, speaking a century ago, about the century before that. The contrast, or irony, or whatever the fe…
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Zizek
A few recent Zizek (long) videos (from my Youtube watch history): * On ideology as anti-hope * From mid-last year, an interview at Jacobin * A joint appearance last year with Yanis Varoufakis * T…
"On Cyberspace"
Warning: From 1995 (25 years ago!) Today the term "cyberspace" sounds silly (perhaps "internet culture" comes closest) but here's a 10-min clip of Neil Postman talking about i…
A prescient interview by Aldous Huxley
Remember, this interview was filmed just over six decades ago, and reference a book written nine decades ago (Brave New World). Of course, his interviewer is humoring him and not quite taking him ser…
An interview with Peter Theil
I’ve applied block quotes to the responses, all inner emphases are mine. This just something I found ... very interesting. Original source here; this is copy-pasted from Google Translate. Copyright N…