Month: July 2019
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The kids are all right
Greta Thunberg interview at Teh Graun. Full of things I already know be true, but which I nonetheless struggle to articulate through the weary cynicism of four decades of life under capitalist realism. The killer line: We must focus on what we can do. Not what we can’t do. It’s true. It’s also difficult. That’s…
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Hogwarts truancy cosplay
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Geometries
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Past futures / participatory panopticon revisited
It’s a head-spinning experience to think back and recall how I started the journey to where I’m at now, in terms of what I do for a living, not least because I had no idea where I was going. Well, that’s not strictly true – I decided circa 2004 that I was going to have…
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Weird futurings in the academic hinterlands
Vibrations in the web suggest that folk I don’t yet know are trying in various ways to force a bit of weirdness into the academic futures literature. I’m particularly taken with this title and abstract: Sport hunting and tourism in the twenty-second century: humans as the ultimate trophy / Wright, Daniel W M (2019) This…