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Month: October 2020

  • cyberpunkish pontifications

    Over the weekend I iterated my Extremely Minor Public Intellectual routine once again, at the invitation of Mark Everglade, who interviewed me as part of World Cyberpunk Day (which is, or at least was, apparently A Thing*). Mark describes me as “a post-doctoral scholar of sociotechnical futures who works with science fiction tools and ideas…

  • the pool of potential victims appeared limited

    Danny Dorling: The mortality surge lasted for weeks at the start of 2015. It went up suddenly. In one week in January, as the hospitals became overwhelmed, the number of excess deaths rose from 448 to to 4050, then 3721, 3220, 2408, 1719, 1470, not dipping below 1000 until mid-March. It rose again to 1973…

  • 06OCT20 / accessions

  • 03OCT20 / accessions

  • provide your own interpretation

    For me, this odd tableau at Historika Museet here in Lund felt very now in a dozen different ways, from the literal to the figurative. Also a weird vindication of wasting a few hours of a heretofore steadfastly unproductive and overcast Friday afternoon. Did I mention I hate autumn? Sure, it’s pretty, the colours on…