velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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previously unexplored genre substrata
Next time someone asks you “what is genre, anyway?”, send them to Lucy Sante.
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directions for the limo driver
From a longer-term perspective, that even the unhinged instinctive autocrat currently at the helm of the world’s largest economic egregore can be persuaded to blink when confronted with the full stare of the basilisk deity that we have dubbed “the markets” cannot be read as anything other than bad news.
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resistant to the development of dramatic tension
Some of us have to learn things the hard way.
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talking ’bout his generation
There’s something very boyish about Eno, even now.
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the inevitability of subspam
As I and many others predicted it would, Substack at some point moved to a model where you can no longer simply add your email to the list of a given publication; now (of course!) you have to make an account on the platform to subscribe to anything. But you also have to make an…
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].”