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City Arts & Lectures · 434 episodes with transcripts

Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented onstage conversations with outstanding figures in literature, politics, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse perspectives about ideas and values.

Spoken has transcripts of 434 City Arts & Lectures episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 4, 2026.

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  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest City Arts & Lectures transcripts

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

October 4, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:11)

Welcome to City Arts & Lectures, a season of talks and on-stage conversations with some of the most celebrated writers, artists, and thinkers of our day, recorded before an audience at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco.

Our guests today are Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, two of today's most significant public intellectuals. Klein is the best-selling author of Doppelganger, No Logo, and The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her critiques of globalization and neoliberalism, as well as her climate activism, have made her…

Naomi Klein (2:12)

Thank you.

Poulomi Saha (2:20)

Thank you so much for being here.

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