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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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far gone & out
Farewell, little house. We had some times, did we not?
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boxing day
Twenty-four hours until load-out. Still lots to do. (That’s most of my library, there. And if you’re thinking “bloody hell, man, couldn’t you cull it a bit?” — well, yeah; that’s about half the size my library was a few weeks ago. Painful, but necessary.)
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resisting both purity and progress
Anne Galloway on more-than-human design: … I’m not a believer that technology under capitalism will be the planet’s salvation, and I tend to part ways with (commercial?) designers and technologists who aim to design more “precision” agriculture through “intelligent” machines, and I’m constantly watching for bad omens. The ethos of the More-Than-Human Lab draws on
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].”