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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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07DEC19 / accessions
No, YOU binge-purchase as a coping mechanism for winter.
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semiotics of utopia
It’s yer man Stan Robinson, trying to (quite literally) square away the reductive dichotomy of [u/dys]topia: It’s important to remember that utopia and dystopia aren’t the only terms here. You need to use the Greimas rectangle and see that utopia has an opposite, dystopia, and also a contrary, the anti-utopia. For every concept there is
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06DEC19 / accessions
Top one is to review for Extrapolation, the journal of the SFRA – my first assignment for them, in fact. The conceit is remarkably close to that of one of the projects I’m currently working on, which is why I chose it. The bottom three are the first consignment of a large order made to
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on the contemptuousness of propagandists
Reading this piece about Isaac Levido, the new campaign manager that the Tories have employed this time round, I was struck by this quote from one of the pair of socnet edgelords in charge of their dAnK b0oM3r MeM3Z: “You can have a quote from an economist. Or you can have a picture of a
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the conditions of credibility
Steven Shapin, with the — OK, with an STS perspective on “post-truth” at LARB: The problem we confront is better described not as too little science in public culture but as too much. Given the absurdities and errors abroad in the land, it may seem crazy to say this, yet the point can be pressed.
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].”