Author: PGR
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the distinction that now counts for me
… the distinction that now counts for me is not between critical and creative practices, or between aesthetic and other uses of literature. It is between work done to please power, and work done in the face of death. Irina Dumitrescu https://creativecritical.net/why-im-no-longer-a-proper-academic/
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16AUG23 / accessions
An impulse acquisition, of which the department was notified by the institution as the latter departed with it to the eastern coast of Skåne for a day and a half of planning meetings. The note passed to the department reads: Heard this was good; on the basis of the first fifty pages, one understands exactly…
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#weaksignals: Panama lock-out, Lithium as the new oil, Nvidia’s gold-rush shovel-store
We’re in a weird phase at the moment, where things simultaneously seem to be moving very fast and not changing at all. So I figure it’s high time I screwed on my Grown-up Foresight Practitioner hat and started a more public practice of looking at (and interpreting) potential weak signals. First up, drought in Central…
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geoengineering is just another suitcase word
… and that’s as good a reason to distrust it on principle as any other. Via Jay, here’s a rant from Jeff Maurer (a Daily Show writer, I think?) about reductive attitudes to geoengineering which, through its own deployment of reductive attitudes, illustrates (presumably unintentionally) exactly why the reductive attitudes it attacks are justifiable. It…
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cultural-fracking-as-a-service (or: an abjuration of “artificial intelligence”)
I’m currently in the nuts-and-bolts phase of booting up my consultancy practice: doing stuff like establishing the business as a legal entity, starting bank accounts, buying domain names and (re)making websites. It’s the sort of stuff that makes a heretofore conceptual goal very concrete, very quickly: my business is actually a thing-in-the-world now. As a…