Douglas Rushkoff talks about his book, "Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Where does obsessive collecting come from? And what does it mean? Lorraine Daston takes us back to 17th century Europe and the nobility’s Kunstkamera, or chambers of wonders. They were filled with nature’s freaks and anomalies. But these marvels, these monsters, gave birth to modern science.
Neil Innes wrote and sang the tunes for The Rutles, who were Eric Idle’s parody of The Beatles.
Jon Hein uses the term “jump-the-shark” to describe the precise moment when things begin to go bad.
Robbie Fulks talks to Doug Gordon about his latest album, "Georgia Hard," and his former identity as a staff songwriter for a Nashville music publisher.
Steve Paulson presents a profile of the late writer Noel Perrin, best known for his essays on rural life.
Joshua Clover explains the subtitle of his book, “1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This To Sing About.”
Jim Ridge performs a one man show called "Dickens in America," which he wrote with his friend Jim DeVita.
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