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a blog by Paul Graham Raven

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

two verbs in one

The verb in question is “to speculate”
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Futures 🙜 Politics 🙜 Sociology 🙜 Technology 🙜 Weak Signals

26 Feb 2025
stripping back the veneer of national showmanship

The foot in the boot belongs to the market.
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General

25 Feb 2025
24FEB25 / accessions

I’ve been a bit remiss with the accessions posts of late, but I’m not gonna go back and catch up.
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Accessions 🙜 Infrastructural Theory 🙜 Music

24 Feb 2025
easy solutions to problems of unfathomable scale

Offered without comment: The modern condition consists of a constant self-infantilization, of any number of “non-adulting” activities. The main being, of course, plugging into a dopamine casino right before going to sleep and right upon waking up. At least a morning cigarette habit in 1976 gave one time to look at the world in front
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Climate Change 🙜 Philosophy 🙜 Social Theory

21 Feb 2025
the truth will out

“N-th verse / same as the first”
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Futures 🙜 Politics 🙜 Weak Signals

18 Feb 2025

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.