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Joey Goldblatt l’invita à rejoindre la Troubadours Society, qui lui loua un petit mais luxueux appartement au-dessus du club. L’objectif des Troubadours était de vous permettre de rester au centre de Manhattan, à proximité de votre fonds, et de laisser le reste du monde venir à soi depuis Brooklyn, Berlin ou ailleurs. Ces Troubadours étaient artist
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Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted Lives
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Tara Isabella Burton • Original Sin—A Theological Reading of Innovation
Nature’s laws do not change very much. So long as the store of human knowledge continues to expand, as it has since Gutenberg’s printing press, we will slowly come to a better understanding of nature’s signals, if never all its secrets. And yet if science and technology are the heroes of this book, there is the risk in the age of Big Data about bec
... See moreNate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Paris, the figure of the solitary stroller who both records and comes to symbolize the emergence of the modern city has a name – the flâneur.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
In their day jobs, his parents continually wrestled with the tension, in American law, between individual freedoms and the collective good. Both identified, broadly speaking, as utilitarians: any law should seek not to maximize some abstract notion of freedom but rather the greatest good for the greatest number. They never pushed their views on Sam
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
There will now come what I would expect to be a long period of virtual enslavement. . . . The automobile, television . . . drugs, and now the computer culture, have become not the enlargers of life they were originally seen to be,... See more
Wendell Berry • Against killing children
For Paris is, according to its legend, the city where everyone loses his head, and his morals, lives through at least one histoire d’amour, ceases, quite, to arrive anywhere on time, and thumbs his nose at the Puritans—the city, in brief, where all become drunken on the fine old air of freedom. This legend, in the fashion of legends, has this much
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