Author: PGR

  • 15OCT22 / accessions

    An assortment.

  • palpably anxious authors

    Interesting and accidental juxtaposition in these two bits from very different scenes and sources, which nonetheless rhyme strongly: In my most cynical moments, I wonder if the return to literary moralism isn’t an evolutionary tactic of publishing’s extant power structures, substituting real-world issues of employment and portfolio identity representation—which do matter—with equitable representation within individual…

  • complaints of a reluctant LARPer

    Talking to an old friend about LinkedIn the other day, said friend described it as “business LARP”. The topic came up because, as a person who is easing themselves back into the searching-for-gainful-employment game, I am now obliged to engage with LinkedIn: in Sweden, it’s basically the default platform through which almost all recruitment takes…

  • Au ‘voir, Oncle Bruno

    Very sad to hear about Bruno Latour’s passing on Sunday—though perhaps not exactly surprised, as I was aware he’d been wrestling with some form of cancer for a while. I’m not a good enough philosopher or theorist to talk eloquently of his position in and influence upon various fields of knowledge, except to note that…

  • 06OCT22 / accessions

    Went looking for the new Saga, which has yet to arrive on Swedish shores, but the new Monstress is a fine tide-me-over. A very dark and maximalist series, this, in both its art style and story; Liu’s short prose fiction seems much less densely packed, somehow. But something about this story keeps me coming back;…