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Author: PGR

  • screech all you like, you will never fly

    Clearly this place is turning into some sort of all-Sam-Kriss-all-the-time Tumblr rip-off, but what the heck—I’ve got two full days of workshops to be in, so quickie reblog content is all there’s time for. But when that content is perhaps the most concisely perspicacious summary of the two different ways to read Nietzsche, surely we…

  • at the crest of the curve

    Because we’ve been successfully convinced that we have to wait for professionals to provide us with The New Future, rather than making our own, we’re stuck in something like an endless generative loop based on A Weekend at Bernie’s.

  • the space necessary for thinking is lost

    I’ve been saying for a long time that the “filter bubble” thesis is precisely wrong.

  • might be an ancient pagan remnant

    If we accept that science (very broadly conceived) is a paradigm of meaning-making that succeeded a collection a mythic and folkloric forms, then it seems reasonable to imagine that what we might think of as the geological formation of culture precedes in much the same way in either paradigm.

  • pause for a moment to reflect on the enormous significance of this

    A work of science fiction is never about the time in which it is supposedly set; it’s about the time in which it is written. Which means that the question we should be asking ourselves is why this particular myth […] is the one that’s bubbling through right now.