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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Well, first, nobody who knows much of anything about the Bloomsbury Group calls them the “Bloomsbury <i>Set</i>”—that’s a largely pejorative label devised in Britain by homophobic and conservative minded folks who decided the Bloomsberries represented everything they despised. It’s not always used pejoratively now, nor only in Britain, but it does still indicate a lack of knowledge of the Group. Ironically, Ms. Sanghvi’s claim that this tech think tank is Silicon Valley’s answer to the B’bury Group is exactly correct, though, as point by point that think tank represents the antithesis of everything the Group valued, achieved, and has come to represent for its admirers today.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Brenda Helt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Co-editor <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury-13031.html"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury-13031.html</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Vwoolf [<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu">mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Laura Zander<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 05, 2017 8:39 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] Silicon Valley's Bloomsbury? Methinks not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>"Ms. Sanghvi describes it as tech’s answer to the Bloomsbury Set.."<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>This is about as far from Bloomsbury as you can get, with a bunch of men staring into screens as they dream up ways to make money, but sure... go ahead and use that reference point.<br><br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/business/tech-scene-south-park-commons-san-francisco.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/business/tech-scene-south-park-commons-san-francisco.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>