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Author: PGR

  • haunted by (hopeful) futures

    The great pleasure of following Adam Roberts’s blogging—once you’ve gotten past the minor frustration of finding that he’s upped sticks and moved to another domain and/or platform for whatever he’s currently driven to write about—is watching him try out ideas, throw together a hypothesis, then start poking it to see if it holds up. Latest…

  • sort of like lizards, but for jizz instead of the sun

    I do not recall how I came to find Eleanor Janega’s Going Medieval blog, but I know damn well why I still have it in the ol’ feedreader: it’s because it’s good to have someone on hand to 1a) correct widespread misconceptions about the medieval, to which I am definitely party as much as anyone…

  • we’re all gnostics now

    At tQ, scathing words from Darran Anderson on the ongoing rehabilitation of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber: … there is no group anywhere on the political spectrum that is not gnostic now. By which I mean, that every single position from furthest left to ‘moderate’ centre to furthest right believes they are the…

  • 19MAR22 / accessions

  • the influence of anxiety

    Fredric Jameson, clearing his throat before a long piece (from 2007) on the half-centennial of Garcia Garquez’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude: Influence is not a kind of copying, it is permission unexpectedly received to do things in new ways, to broach new content, to tell stories by way of forms you never knew you…