My bet on American intellectual life: Joel Miller interviews me
On world-building, Interintellect, AI, taste, the humanities, canons, and Hungarian literature -- and why it is time to build culture.
My friend Joel J Miller of Miller’s Book Review interviewed me about the things that truly matter to me, the things I spend my life working on:
How can you use your education and life experiences to find out what it is you really want to build?
How do people acquire and nurture good taste?
How does a new cultural institution work?
How can people build their own “personal culture” and become “sovereign readers”?
Is reading supposed to be a lonely activity, or can your erudition be supported by communities you seek out as an adult?
Is there something special about the Hungarian language and literary output?
Do foreign languages change who we are and what art we like?
How do literary and cultural canons form?
How great is the benefit of good literature teachers in school?
How can you find and retain cognitive autonomy in an era of fast entertainment and more and more ubiquitous AI?
Can AI actually help us become better at building human culture?
And more.
Please read, comment, and add your points to mine — we are so much smarter together!
Thank you, Joel! So much fun.
x Anna