Author: PGR
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because all of these people are ducklings
The internet is not a place, but it nonetheless has denizens, easily identified by their astonishing collective narcissism.
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the cozy catastrophists of cosplay doomerism
I don’t know if Brennan’s use of the “cozy catastrophe” label comes with an awareness of its origins, but it may be more fitting than they seem to realise.
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the very capacities that make agency possible
A clip from an essay on Zhaungzi’s approach to virtue.
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we (believe that we) have always lived in the castle
I’ve noticed for some years now a discursive tic in what little fannish media I still consume, in which reviewers rehearse a catechism along the lines of “minority representation in genre literature, both at the level of characters and the level of authors, has always been and still is terrible”. To which my response is…
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i find this line of questioning exhilarating
It was never about “tech”, not least because there’s no such thing as “tech”. There is only people using things to do stuff, and if that is anything, then it is politics.