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The Geotechnical Conjunctions of the World

David Frum: In this talk, I'm gonna cycle through a series of what I call geotechnical conjunctions. The first one was already Middletown, so Wesleyan University, Manhattan and Silicon Valley in the 2010s. The second one is New York City and Paris in the 1960s. And the final scene is France and Algeria from 1954 to 1964. Out of that, try to offer this history of this relation between scenes that is at one hand deeply intertwined, but also can never really resolve into one global picture.

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