Author: PGR
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Rosengårds station
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detect patterns that would be otherwise invisible
Just over twenty pages into Graeber and Wengrove, confident from the outset that I was in safe hands, and I hit this: “Now, we should be clear here: social theory always, necessarily, involves a bit of simplification. For instance, almost any human action might be said to have a political aspect, an economic aspect, a…
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15JUL22 / accessions
Few days late, these, but the accessions department is running at reduced capacity due to annual leave. Doom Patrol because I’ve known of it for years, but never read it. New Nina Allan because new Nina Allan. The Rankin-Gee because I read the blurb and was reminded almost instantly of half a dozen unfinished stories…
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09JUL22 / accessions
Well, you can’t attend a convention and not buy books, can you? Especially not if they’re (presumably) remaindered stock going at considerably less than the usual face cost of books in Scandinavia, which is Not Cheap. The Jemisin because I was hugely impressed by the Broken Earth series, and figure I should try more of…
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trolley problems
Thought it was time I saw what all the fuss was with Emily St. John Mandel, so started in on Sea of Tranquility while travelling to Helsinki for Finncon. (Scandinavian ferry culture deserves an ethnography all of its own.) My capsule takeaway on Mandel so far would be something like “what if David ‘Cloud Atlas’…