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Author: PGR

  • 13AUG22 / accessions

    Actually bought yesterday, but whatevs. Doom Patrol 2 because the first one was OK. The Liu because I’ve been enjoying Monstress, so why not see what she can do with words alone? The Palmer because look I thought we agreed not to talk about this and anyway I’ve invested a bunch of time on the…

  • Nightmare on Planet Thanet: Rosa Rankin-Gee’s Dreamland

    Anyone of the “climate dystopias are surplus to purpose” school of thought might as well click away now; Dreamland is very much not the droid you’re looking for. A staggeringly bleak extrapolation of post-Brexit Britain, taking as its focus the recently (and probably temporarily) reinvigorated seaside town of Margate as its setting, I’m not sure…

  • linguistic calculus

    Yesterday’s XKCD has (if you’ll excuse the pun) particular resonance for someone still fighting to learn Swedish as a second language: That said, I dare say most Swedes would see this as a joke about (the) Danish.

  • delete after writing

    Greetings from the midst of what seems to be an enduring motivational slump, and/or a mismanaged case of burn-out which is still smouldering, and/or a resurgence of a well-entrenched fear of uncertainty regarding (un)employment which, while understandable in terms of its formation, is profoundly maladaptive nonetheless. I can’t write right now. I mean, OK, sure,…

  • as if there was necessarily just one transition

    Graeber and Wengrove again, referring to archaeological evidence from the soi disant ‘Fertile Crescent’: If the situation in just one cradle of early farming was that complicated, then surely it no longer makes sense to ask, ‘what were the social implications of the transition to farming?’ — as if there was necessarily just one transition,…