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

Murketing / Agency

Ryan Alexander Diduck at tQ on the demise of R*d B*ll Music Academy: We no longer recognise brands and commodities as socially constructed, so we want to oversimplify and assign agency to them – agency that is really much more chaotically distributed, structurally prescribed, and historically driven. We tend to say, for instance, that the
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Infrastructural Theory 🙜 Philosophy

31 Oct 2019
Huddersfield

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General

30 Oct 2019
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General

29 Oct 2019
Small Smart Objects

… as opposed to the traditional sf plot-engine staple of the Big Dumb Object. Madeline Ashby and Charlie Jane Anders interviewed-in-conversation at Slate (and edited further by me for concision): Charlie Jane: […] That’s something that always bugs me, the ways that tech is designed to be opaque. Madeline: Right, I think that’s the nature of writing
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Futures 🙜 Science Fiction

28 Oct 2019
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General

28 Oct 2019

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.