Velcro City Tourist Board – Page 19 – science fiction / social theory / infrastructural change / utopian narratology

24FEB25 / accessions

I’ve been a bit remiss with the accessions posts of late, but I’m not gonna go back and catch up.

24 Feb 2025

easy solutions to problems of unfathomable scale

Offered without comment: The modern condition consists of a constant self-infantilization, of any number of “non-adulting” activities. The main being, of course, plugging into a dopamine casino right before going to sleep and right upon waking up. At least a morning cigarette habit in 1976 gave one time to look at the world in front…

[… read the whole post.]

Climate Change 🙜 Philosophy 🙜 Social Theory

21 Feb 2025

the truth will out

“N-th verse / same as the first”

[… read the whole post.]

Futures 🙜 Politics 🙜 Weak Signals

18 Feb 2025

drill, baby, drill

Things may be pretty messy all over, but at least renewable energy is winning the game, right? What’s particularly surprising is that the IEA’s electricity report is absolutely devastating to the project of decarbonization, but few in the climate community seem alarmed by it, so far. Cold Eye Earth offers the following reason why: the…

[… read the whole post.]

Climate Change 🙜 Futures 🙜 Infrastructural Theory 🙜 Social Theory

17 Feb 2025

the myopia of futurism

If you think that “AI” is going to put futurists out of work, then your idea of what a futurist does is centered on the regurgitation of cliches and truisms… and you’re probably right.

[… read the whole post.]

General

7 Feb 2025

24FEB25 / accessions

easy solutions to problems of unfathomable scale

the truth will out

drill, baby, drill

the myopia of futurism

Who is Paul Graham Raven?

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.