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Published · transcript-backedLarissa MacFarquhar: belief
16 Jan 2019 Conversations with Tyler Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
“The internet also has disseminated all kinds of writing about abstract ideas that people didn’t know how many people would be interested in reading such things. So I think yeah, absolutely.”
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- Larissa MacFarquhar
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- 16 Jan 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Could you ever imagine relaunching Lingua Franca? Could such a thing survive today? You had an early role in it, correct? Yeah, I was an editor at Lingua Franca, which is a now defunct magazine about academia. Yeah, I absolutely think so. One of the interesting things about this time of ours is that there seems to be so much appetite — it’s almost like the 1890s again — there seems to be so much appetite for talks about ideas. There are all these lectures that are attended and sold out about relatively abstract, obscure subjects. The internet also has disseminated all kinds of writing about abstract ideas that people didn’t know how many people would be interested in reading such things. So I think yeah, absolutely. What’s your most unusual writing habit?…
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