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Author: PGR

  • 17DEC21 / accessions

    Bumper batch from PM Press. Somewhat less of a bargain after the import tax, mind you… and for reasons unexplained the package was to be collected from a location half an hour by bike from my actual address, way out on the edge of the city. But hey, I needed the exercise.

  • epistemic seismology

    The always insightful Ryan Oakley wrestles with reality: Some stories may seem more true than others, some more pleasing, and others more dangerous, but no matter how true, beautiful or deadly, they are stories. Our reality is woven from stories –tales invented by readers just as much as authors– and our personalities are only stories…

  • honeymoon objectivity

    Serendipity, thy name is INTERNET. Currently in the midst of working up a big old grant application*, and what should appear but this piece from Sun-Ha Hong at Real Life, neatly filling a reference gap that’s been bugging me for a few weeks? Preach it, brother: Fredric Jameson once wrote that science fiction has become…

  • 24NOV21 / accessions

  • Smart cities: Policy without polity

    Another publication is getting close to popping out of the pipeline! 23rd November 2021 sees the formal release of the Routledge Handbook of Social Futures, in which yours truly has a chapter entitled “Smart cities: Policy without polity”. Regular readers here will likely be able to guess—and guess correctly!—that this piece does not at all…