Author: PGR
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06MAY24 / video of Copenhagen worldbuilding lecture
The video of my lecture at Copenhagen University last month is available for your viewing pleasure.
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that boy needs therapy
The dopey dad-joke non sequiturs of “Frontier Psychiatrist”, the inescapable hit single, set my teeth a-grind from the very first listen, precisely because they seem so calculated, in a manner that’s entirely of a piece with the masterful joinery of the music itself.
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begin to remake who we are and how we live
On the one hand, [Buckminster] Fuller’s philosophy of change seems too hopeful now; it’s fair to wonder whether we have time for it.
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29APR24 / first third
April’s on its way out of the door, and we finally had an unambiguously spring-y weekend in Malmö, all clear bright skies and two-figure temperatures. I’m always drawing lines in the figurative calendar, and perhaps one day I’ll do the work to find out just what sort of possibly pathological origins that habit might have.…
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thank you, Copenhagen
Gave my worldbuilding talk on the south campus of Copenhagen University yesterday afternoon, and I don’t mind saying that it went really well. Having a a great audience really helps: But also sometimes the planets are aligned correctly, the magic is in the room, and the thing just flows through you. Artists of many sorts…