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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leveraging their putative goodness / the psychopathology of private infrastructures
You may remember Joel Bakan from such influential Noughties non-fiction books/movies as The Corporation. Well, Bakan’s back, and his earlier thesis — that corporations, if considered as people, are basically psychopaths — is no less true than before. In fact, he claims it’s worse, because concepts like “corporate social responsibility” have merely encouraged them to
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strategies for lucidity
I’m having the sort of day — and month, and year — in which confirming that I’m neither dreaming nor hallucinating has been more needful than ever before, in the best possible way. I seem to have joined the academic branch of #1000mphclub…
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the axioms others take for granted are painful
In which Stewart Hotston, a writer I was heretofore utterly ignorant of, propels himself into my need-to-read list: In the end all storytelling is political. There is no ‘entertainment only’ version of storytelling because for someone in the audience the axioms others take for granted are painful, disempowering and even oppressive. Only those who are
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].”