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a blog by Paul Graham Raven

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

20NOV20

Some days you just can’t traction on any damned thing, and this was one of those days. Taking some comfort from the knowledge that there used to be a lot of days like that, and now they’re pretty rare. Definitely struggling with the encroaching dark of winter, though… and the Swedish style of HVAC seems
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General

20 Nov 2020
19NOV20 / accessions

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Accessions

19 Nov 2020
all these words have been poisoned, right?

McKenzie Wark, interviewed at Believer: … in Capital is Dead I wanted to ask the question of how have we innovated language—god, I hate that word, innovate. All these words have been poisoned, right? What’s the art, if I can say that, what’s the literary dimension of writing theory? It’s a genre of literature, Marx
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Philosophy 🙜 Social Theory 🙜 Writing

17 Nov 2020
17NOV20 / accessions

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Accessions

17 Nov 2020
helgens vandring

That light. Gargantuan marine hazard signage a bonus.
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General

16 Nov 2020

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.