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a blog by Paul Graham Raven

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

  • syndemic

    Richard Horton at The Lancet (via Andrew Curry): Two categories of disease are interacting within specific populations—infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and an array of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These conditions are clustering within social groups according to patterns of inequality deeply embedded in our societies. The aggregation of these diseases on

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  • torsdag

    Early morning. Busy week… busy month. Lectures, courses, presentations and launch events, abstracts and revisions and draft papers… everything at once, really. And a surprising amount of fiction reading, too; the advantage of agreeing to teach a seminar on climate fiction is that it forces you to read the stuff you suggested on the basis

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  • memorandum

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  • 12OCT20 / accessions

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  • cyberpunkish pontifications

    Over the weekend I iterated my Extremely Minor Public Intellectual routine once again, at the invitation of Mark Everglade, who interviewed me as part of World Cyberpunk Day (which is, or at least was, apparently A Thing*). Mark describes me as “a post-doctoral scholar of sociotechnical futures who works with science fiction tools and ideas

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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.