Links for 03-06-2008
Hierarchy of disagreement; ignore the singularity and write about now; the decline and fall of nation-statehood; Rhetorics of Fantasy reviewed …
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1 - How to Disagree“Most readers can tell the difference between mere name-calling and a carefully reasoned refutation, but I think it would help to put names on the intermediate stages. So here’s an attempt at a disagreement hierarchy.”
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“… here’s a rare piece of advice for my fellow science fiction writers: forget the singularity. Even if it’s real, it’s irrelevant. The decisive moment in history is now, before it occurs. Seize that, write about that. All else is distraction.”
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“… it’s a big mistake to view power in this new world as a competition confined only to large nations. In fact, small states will increasingly find themselves with more influence and more room to manoeuvre.”
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“Rhetorics of Fantasy does an outstanding job of laying out the parameters for future explorations. I found myself not only agreeing with Mendlesohn’s conclusions the majority of the time, but I also began asking questions that this book chose not to cove
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“… the ideas on modifiers are the ones I’ve most taken to heart, the ones that may have most benefited my writing.” Interesting; these appear a lot in poetry also.
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