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Interview with Virginia Heffernan on Edge, the dangers of Scientism, & Culture Wars
Decoding the Gurus
What's a Deal With Edge?
John brockman, who a sort of a delettante who became a literary agent, also decided to kind of get his clients together in kind of salons. And was luck, this sort of sort of founding act of edge creation, is that he managed to get edge dot org on the web early on. So i do honestly to cut to the chase on that think that the beginning was a little bit about reclaiming the mantle of intellectual from literary types people in the humanitys like pinchon or nabacof or whatever. They weren't painters, they weren't jackson polloc and they were more nirty, really. Most of them american. But you can
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