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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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a bear of very little intelligence
One wonders what sort of things those two discussed over their plausibly liquid lunches along the Strand?
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previously unexplored genre substrata
Next time someone asks you “what is genre, anyway?”, send them to Lucy Sante.
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directions for the limo driver
From a longer-term perspective, that even the unhinged instinctive autocrat currently at the helm of the world’s largest economic egregore can be persuaded to blink when confronted with the full stare of the basilisk deity that we have dubbed “the markets” cannot be read as anything other than bad news.
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resistant to the development of dramatic tension
Some of us have to learn things the hard way.
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].”