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Is Cool Dead?

Ted Gioia, author of The Birth (and Death) of the Cool, dropped by Zócalo’s office to explain why the hip, ironic pose we’ve come to know as “coolness” is over, and earnestness is in.

*Photo courtesy jorge.correa.


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