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a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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we (believe that we) have always lived in the castle
B D McClay asks “when exactly was science fiction [literature] about jacked bros in space“, and concludes that the answer is quite possibly “never”—or at least “not back in the Golden Age, despite claims persistent over decades that it was”. McClay thinks that this metanarrative has a lot to do with the long-standing resentment of…
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i find this line of questioning exhilarating
It was never about “tech”, not least because there’s no such thing as “tech”. There is only people using things to do stuff, and if that is anything, then it is politics.
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print-shop dispatches
Monoprint means just what it says: it’s a print method in which every print is unique. A less aspirational way to phrase that might be: you never know what you’re going to get.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”