Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason)

Conversations with Tyler

Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2016

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Camille Paglia joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on the brilliance of Bowie, lamb vindaloo, her lifestyle of observation, why writers need real jobs, Star Wars, Harold Bloom, Amelia Earhart, Edmund Spenser, Brazil, why she is most definitely not a cultural conservative, and much more.

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0:00.0	Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,
0:08.4	bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems.
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0:22.8	Camille has written the very best essays ever on Edmund Spencer, Alice in Wonderland,
0:31.7	and the Marquis de Saude.
0:34.0	She understands Bob Dylan and Susan Sontag.
0:38.8	And she has pursued a career of great integrity.
0:42.5	That's my introduction for Camille.
0:44.2	Oh.
0:45.2	I'd like to start with a question from a reader.
0:47.0	I'll read this for questions.
0:48.7	How do you feel about the fact that Silicon Valley dominates our economy and culture.
0:52.7	Is there any tech guru you're interested in?
0:56.1	Well, no.
0:57.3	My last big tech guru was probably Marshall McCluen.
1:00.3	I was like, well, he has a prophetic insight into what was about to happen.
1:03.5	He's the patron saint of my working on the web from the very first issue of salon in 1995
1:11.5	when it's hard to believe that web still wasn't taken seriously by already established journalists.
1:21.0	There was a major political reporter at the Boston Globe, for example, who tried to pressure
1:26.8	me not to write for the web.
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