Category: Writing
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Malmö music futures: Waves of the Blue Sea
Three stories from me this time, based on three scenarios produced by a gloriously eccentric batch of participants in four full days of collaborative foresight exploration of “the futures of sound and song”.
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The Way Out Is Through: Co-produced Critical Utopia as an Antidote to Anthropocenic Academic Melancholia
It is surely fitting that one of my last few academic publications should have a title so verbose that it’s almost autoparody. Talk about the slow grind of academic publishing, though. My records suggest I sent the abstract for what would eventually mutate into this chapter toward the end of summer in 2021… and I’m…
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merciful release: navel-gaze blogday blahblahblah
Happy blogday to me! I have owned and written stuff on this domain since 14th March 2006. Eighteen years! It seems quite astonishing to me, that stretch of time. This will come as not surprise to regular readers, of course, who will be accustomed to me writing “it feels like an eternity, and yet like…
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divestor storytime: reading “Village People”at Media Evolution
I keep promising an in-depth post about the Media Evolution collaborative foresight cycle I was involved with late last year. Apologies, but this is not that in-depth post—partly because I’m currently very busy working on the next collaborative foresight cycle (of which ME do three each year), among various other client-facing things. But this post…
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among all the hundreds of bottom right corners of left-facing pages: thoughts on notetaking
Last week I found myself in the new-to-me position of talking about being a writer to people studying for postgrad qualifications in creative writing. This was a very strange experience, and not entirely a comfortable one. Over the last decade or so, I have become fairly comfortable with expounding on matters and/or techniques in which…