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Cory Doctorow in conversation with Ruth Padel

12 Sep 2009

Speakers: Ruth Padel, Cory Doctorow

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On 12 September 2009, The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm hosted The Long Conversation, a 12-hour relay discussion involving twenty different speakers spanning science, art, business, technology, literature and philosophy. The series was inspired by Jem Finer’s 1000-year piece of music Longplayer – performed, simultaneously, elsewhere in the building.

Cory Doctorow and Ruth Padel talk about literature and science fiction, poets and worldliness, and material and metaphysical innovation.

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