The Peruvian novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa, thinks culture is dead. His latest book, Notes on the Death of Culture, makes the case that any current attempt at cultural engagement, preservation, or transformation is an exercise in futility; there’s no culture left to preserve, no culture left to save, no culture left to transform. In Part 1 of this podcast, I lay out Llosa’s main arguments as strongly as I can. In Part 2, we’ll see if I can recover from his arguments…