Velcro City Tourist Board

Author: PGR

  • 31JAN23 / accessions

    Courtesy of the publishers, this one. Good cover; I’m sure the contents will be just as good.

  • various interested parties exercising whatever leverage they can establish within a given context

    Rob Horning continues to blaze a trail of theoretically-informed examinations of social media, to the extent that I a) wish someone would ask him to write a book on this stuff, and b) wish someone would check to see if he’s getting outside the house much. Lots of chewy stuff in this latest missive, which…

  • the exit that is creation, the power of falsity that is truth

    Apparently it was Gilles Deleuze’s birthday yesterday, so big thanks for BIG OTHER coughing up a selection of quotes by the man himself, among which this one was the one that I really needed to read today: Creation takes place in bottlenecks…A creator who isn’t grabbed around the throat by a set of impossibilities is…

  • simply imagining better things isn’t enough

    Team FOAM have started pushing out more of the fragments I sent them a while back. Latest out of the pipe is a bit titled “The unbearable lightness of solarpunk”, which for old hands at VCTB will be recognisably a condensation-rewrite of this post and a few others. The timing is serendipitous, coinciding closely with…

  • 17JAN23 / accessions

    You know how it is: you go to town to buy a webcam (because the one in your Thinkpad has, in some impossible-to-diagnose manner, gone for a burton) and the store with the webcam just happens to be two doors down from the local sf/f bookstore and … ah, well. The Itäranta because, um, I…