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a blog by Paul Graham Raven

science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats

Zohran’s nonbinary praetorians

This might be one of those days where you have to retreat from the field knowing only that you showed up and took the shelling.
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Writing

23 Feb 2026
no one thinks deeply enough to notice

I have next to zero interest in that Wuthering Heights movie. So why did I read this long piece that takes it as a jumping-off point?
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Art 🙜 Criticism 🙜 Movies 🙜 Social Theory

17 Feb 2026
other, earlier modes of living are fully open to us

I was amused and delighted to discover that David Wengrow actually shares certain philosophical territory with none other than Alan Moore.
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Climate Change 🙜 Futures 🙜 Philosophy 🙜 Politics 🙜 Social Theory

11 Feb 2026
i would prefer not to

Today I received my third request to provide peer review so far this year.
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General

4 Feb 2026
“community” as content, and as form

Schismogenesis and mimetic desire are the yin and yang dynamics at the heart of “community”. Stable cultures must presumably therefore have a good balance of the two.
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Futures 🙜 Philosophy 🙜 Politics 🙜 Social Theory 🙜 Sociology

3 Feb 2026

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].”

Paul is consulting writer, researcher, theorist and foresight practitioner, as well as an author and critic of science fiction literature. More details can be found on the About page of this blog.