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May 2024
43m 36s

Rebecca Solnit: In the Shadow of Silicon...

THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
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Rebecca Solnit has lived in San Francisco since 1980, but the city she used to know is fast disappearing, ‘fully annexed’, as she puts it, by the tech firms from Silicon Valley. In this episode of the LRB podcast, Solnit reads her piece from the 8 February issue of the paper, both a eulogy for the city that’s been lost and a dissection of the dystopia that’s ... Show More
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