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a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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Light ’em up
Everything — every argument, every critique, every shot across the bow — should end up in a positive project. If it doesn’t, you’re just shooting blanks. Matt Colquhoun https://xenogothic.com/2020/08/28/nihilism-without-negativity-in-2020/ Yes, this.
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Semester
Semester is the Swedish word for holiday, which is cause for a little cognitive dissonance for a newly-arrived anglophone academic: what I think of as “the new semester” is just starting, but for locals, “semester” is just ending, and the new academic “cycle” is beginning. I recall reading something not too long ago in which…
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21AUG20 / accessions
Getting in a last few batches of Verso titles direct from the publisher, before the customs implications of You Know What kick in and result in an import tax on stuff sent from the UK to Sweden. (Easy enough to get Verso titles here—AdLibris fills the Amaz*n-shaped gap for book provision over here, without doing…
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].”