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science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats

Experts in their own tomorrows: Placemaking for participatory climate futures

I get published, y’know? Here’s one that didn’t get a mention when it first dropped, because… well, because January, to be honest. Sadly I can’t just send you to read the thing directly, either—because the thing in question is a chapter in the new Routledge Handbook of Placemaking (edited by Cara Courage, with Tom Borrup,
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Academic Publications

24 Feb 2021
365 / ett år i Sverige

A year ago this evening, I rolled off an Øresund train at Malmö Triangeln station with a patient but frazzled Katie-Jane, and walked out into a light rain to get a lift from a friend to my new digs in Sweden. I’ve always been prone to noting the strange dual fluidity of time’s passage, particularly
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General

21 Feb 2021
21FEB21 / accessions

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Accessions

21 Feb 2021
20FEB21 / accessions

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Accessions

20 Feb 2021
How to map nothing: Shannon Mattern on geographies of suspension

Back on 27th January, the UCL faculty of the Built Environment (virtually) hosted a seminar talk by the mighty mighty Shannon Mattern; a little more than a week ago, they uploaded a recording of said talk to A Popular Video-sharing Platform. This is that video, and I commend it to you wholeheartedly; I will not
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Infrastructural Theory 🙜 Politics 🙜 Social Theory 🙜 Sociology 🙜 Technology

19 Feb 2021

Who is Paul Graham Raven?

“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”

Paul is consulting writer, researcher, theorist and foresight practitioner, as well as an author and critic of science fiction literature. More details can be found on the About page of this blog.