Author: PGR
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Birley East Colliery 1888-1943
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07DEC19 / accessions
No, YOU binge-purchase as a coping mechanism for winter.
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semiotics of utopia
It’s yer man Stan Robinson, trying to (quite literally) square away the reductive dichotomy of [u/dys]topia: It’s important to remember that utopia and dystopia aren’t the only terms here. You need to use the Greimas rectangle and see that utopia has an opposite, dystopia, and also a contrary, the anti-utopia. For every concept there is…
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06DEC19 / accessions
Top one is to review for Extrapolation, the journal of the SFRA – my first assignment for them, in fact. The conceit is remarkably close to that of one of the projects I’m currently working on, which is why I chose it. The bottom three are the first consignment of a large order made to…
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on the contemptuousness of propagandists
Reading this piece about Isaac Levido, the new campaign manager that the Tories have employed this time round, I was struck by this quote from one of the pair of socnet edgelords in charge of their dAnK b0oM3r MeM3Z: “You can have a quote from an economist. Or you can have a picture of a…