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⏲ Duration: 9 min 26 sec
✓ Published: 21-Jul-2013
✓ Published: 21-Jul-2013
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Novelist and artist Douglas Coupland in conversation with Shumon Basar around Eric Hobsbawm's book, 'Age of Extremes: A History of the Short 20th Century.' Scarrification, Smupid, Homogenised People Units, war, the wacky 90s and Soviet Union amnesia. nnCinematography: Rob JohnstonnEditor: Sophia Al MariannFilmed for HOBSBAWM FORMAT which can be seen here http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=2145, part of FORMAT, A Live Magazine, held at the Architectural Association, London. Issue 3 ha
Novelist and artist Douglas Coupland in conversation with Shumon Basar around Eric Hobsbawm's book, 'Age of Extremes: A History of the Short 20th Century.' Scarrification, Smupid, Homogenised People Units, war, the wacky 90s and Soviet Union amnesia. nnCinematography: Rob JohnstonnEditor: Sophia Al MariannFilmed for HOBSBAWM FORMAT which can be seen here http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=2145, part of FORMAT, A Live Magazine, held at the Architectural Association, London. Issue 3 ha
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