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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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The future is not a static thing
Le Guin’s work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so deeply about the work of building a future worth living. She did not just believe that a society free of consumerism and incarceration, like Shevek’s homeworld, could exist; she explored how that society could
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#ClimateStrike solidarity
For an assortment of logistico-temporal reasons, I cannot go on strike today. This is politically frustrating, but also just plain frustrating, because I could really do with a day off, to be frank. But the circus rolls on relentlessly… and while my academic work is on the virtuous side of the ledger, the general precarity
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].”