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The Surprising Relevance of an All-Night Philosophy Rave
The Brooklyn Public Library teamed up with the French Embassy for a festival that argues that slow, deliberate thinking matters more than ever.
Late Saturday night, as throngs of protestors swarmed the John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens to rail against President Trump’s partial moratorium on immigration, a different crowd grew 12 miles away. In the soaring Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, hundreds of people were assembling to stay up all night and debate what it means to be human.
The library was open all through the ebony hours, as one of the venues of La Nuit des idées, a festival that took place in over 30 cities across the globe. The Brooklyn incarnation, “A Night of Philosophy and Ideas,” was produced by the library and the French Embassy.