Author: PGR
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mister gotcha trend-lord douchebag
Trends Discourse is a genre unto itself, I have discovered lately, as I try to sustain some sort of engagement with what is arguably an adjacent profession to my own. But the self-satisfaction of its leading pundits, and the lack of reflexivity thereby implied, can make for some serious eyeroll material. Exhibit A is this…
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transition as seen from the other side: Jon Raymond’s Denial
A brief and unusual work of climate fiction, this. Raymond gets straight into an early-2050s US, and a world in which popular anger saw not only some sort of transition away from fossil fuels (in some nations), but also a run of very public prosecutions of bigwigs from Big Carbon: life sentences, the occasional hanging,…
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08APR24 / accessions
Nice that the seasons have shifted sufficiently that there’s now natural light by which to photograph newly accessioned items, eh? Pilates for Men: presumably self-explanatory, especially if one is reminded that the institution’s head is a man in his late 40s who recently quit nicotine, and who does not want to buy a whole new…
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two abysses in a staring contest
The title of this post is how I described my experience of one of this week’s Internet Discourses to a friend of the show. I was not referring to the the Gaza discourse, as Sam Kriss is doing in the piece I’m about to excerpt from. But I might as well have been. You people…
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in Copenhagen, “The Future” is dead
As not-very-subtly hinted yesterday, I have another talk in the calendar, this one at the much better-known (and rather less polar-proximal) location of Copenhagen, taking place from 3pm CET on Thursday 25th April. It’s always nice to be asked to give a talk, but it’s extra special when they make and print a poster for…