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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11JUN20 / accessions
Shamelessly reestablishing old vices, here… but when Lunds Kommun permits people to set up a second-hand book stall directly between the train station and the social science faculty’s corner of the campus, well, what’s an addict to do? Some serendipitous finds, though. Bought a far more recent (and much more expensive) copy of Capital Vol
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06JUN20
Sign-of-life post. Difficult few weeks. Picking up the pieces. Keeping hold of perspective. Black Lives Matter.
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struck by the fact of your own mortality
From a 1984 Paris Review interview with James Baldwin: INTERVIEWER: This brings us to your concern with reality as being history, with seeing the present shaded by everything which occurred in a person’s past. James Baldwin has always been bound by his past, and his future. At forty, you said you felt much older than
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].”