Month: July 2019
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Thick skein
You can’t talk about every possible future in one work of science fiction—that would be crazy. But what you could do is tell a bunch of stories that are relatively plausible, that are set in the near future, and that describe a course of action that readers can imagine in a kind of “thick” texture.…
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A brief pause for breath and reflection
Things have been pretty hectic this last four or five weeks, in (for the most part) agreeable yet challenging ways. Picking up one of those increasingly common viral things at the start of June – y’know, the ones that just make you tired and intestinally out-of-sorts and generally unable to operate at full capacity, but…
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#BBCs2019
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The secret theft of private experience
All these images are illusions of progress or spaces where progress can be hosted. Just as suburbs were sold to postwar America as an idea of living, the smart city is a vehicle to sell a focus-grouped future. But these marketing images aren’t selling smart cities to you and me—they’re made to demonstrate that the…