Brian Eno
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1,303 appearances
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Brian Eno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It turned out that some of the very important people were the collectors who would specifically target certain artists and say, I want to keep this person alive.
I'm going to support this person.
Or they would go to Paris and buy pictures that they brought back to St.
Petersburg and Moscow to show to painters there and say, look, this is what's going on in Paris now.
And then there were the people who ran the salons, who would invite artists to meet up with each other and talk to, and so on and so on.
The cafe owner, the cafe that everybody used to hang out in, who was quite conscious that they had a part to play in the scene and they would let people not pay for their meals and so on.
and put it on the tab.
And so I thought there was a whole scene here that was fertile, that was operational.
There was a whole support system.
And so I had got sick anyway of hearing this word genius being used all the time because it never seemed to me like it was just one person who was doing everything.
So I came up with this word seniors, which is seen with an IUS on the end.
And that seemed to me to much better understand the ecology of systems like that.
And I think that's what it is.
It's an ecosystem and we still don't understand ecosystems.
It's still not intuitive to most of us to understand how a thing like an ecosystem works, how there are lots and lots of nodes and they're connected in very complicated ways.
And if you move one of the nodes to a different place, everything else in the system has to shift.
Anyone who's become interested in the environment has started to become aware of
how complex natural systems are.
But human society is a natural system as well.
And the society of knowledge that we all share is a natural system.
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