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Author: PGR

  • meandering toward a (trans)media ecology of futures

    I realised just the other day that I’d somehow managed not to do a serious wrap-up–or even an unserious and/or cursory wrap-up—on the Futures Brought to Life symposium in Vienna that I attended back in May. I’m not going to do one now, either*, but I thought I might at the very least point at…

  • 06SEP22 / accessions

    A review assignment, from the MIT Press / Josh Glenn Radium Age SF series. Wonderful, striking design.

  • farvel Stavanger

    Stimulating handful of days here in Stavanger for the Petrocultures conference, at which a bunch of us Climaginarians performed yet another instance of the increasingly sprawling Carbon Ruins extended cinematic universe. Lots of interesting panels and talks, obvs, plus the productive cognitive dissonance of enviro-critical scholars holding an event at a national oil museum… and…

  • just stopped to get my bearings

    This terrible visual pun brought to you from Stavanger, Norway.

  • Worm Wards end Otherways

    Three things make a post, we used to say, back in the nostalgically glossed golden age of blogging… so here’s three things based on my being about half way through the Penguin Classics reissue of James Tiptree Jr.’s collection Warm Worlds and Otherwise. Let’s get the crabby complaint out of the way first. Look, it’s…