Name: Imagining Advertisements for Things We Really Need
Uploaded: 2012-09-07T19:06:50-04:00
Duration: 2 min 1 s

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Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London. He is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a 'philosophy of[…]

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