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2010 series - Sydney

Below are past events from the 2020 IQ² series in Sydney.

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Popular Culture: We’ve seen the future and it is junk

Row of three soft drink cans in bright colours each with a letter to spell out the word 'pop'.

9 February 2010 - Sydney

There is a certain cast of mind that locates all virtue in the classics; a cast of mind that dismisses popular culture as worthless.

But in a society where so much popular culture is shaped by yesterday’s heroes, is the conservative critic just the ‘pot calling the kettle black’?

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2009 series

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2008 series

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