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Author: PGR

  • the shell-game of morphological freedom (retro essay reissue)

    As the first step in what will presumably be a long, stop-start sort of project, I have retrieved one of my more obscurely-published and less-read essays and republished it here on VCTB*. This piece — a double review of two ostensibly non-fiction titles on transhumanism — never got a proper title, as it was written…

  • 01JAN2020

  • scumbags and maggots

    Huw Lemmey on the establishment of “Fairytale of New York” as a trench-front in the UK culture wars: Sometimes I wonder if not engaging is the answer, but Iā€™m rapidly coming to the opinion that these disputes could be about anything, and will be about anything. The point is not necessarily about the etymology of…

  • the arcade fire

    A long ol’ piece on Walter Benjamin’s magnum opus by Apoorva Tadepalli at Real Life. It’s the sort of epic longread that merits at least a second thorough go-thru (and has as such been stashed away to that end), but this bit leapt out as being Relevant To My Interests, as the old meme used…

  • Dulverton by night