Martin Puchner on How Culture is Simultaneously Owned by Nobody and By All of Us
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew talks to the Harvard professor and author of Culture Martin Puchner about how culture—from cave art to K-Pop—is the syncretic story of all of us. Nobody has the “right” to it, he says. And we all “own” it.
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Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, is a prize-winning author, educator, public speaker, and institution-builder in the arts and humanities. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.