Did the walkman cut us off from the world? In 1983, France Culture asked Philippe Minyana. For the playwright, the walkman threatened something deeper: the tradition of the walker-thinker, inherited from Rousseau to Apollinaire, and the possibility of even a shared word.
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Did the walkman cut us off from the world? In 1983, France Culture asked Philippe Minyana. For the playwright, the walkman threatened something deeper: the tradition of the walker-thinker, inherited from Rousseau to Apollinaire, and the possibility of even a shared word.