velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
-
the space necessary for thinking is lost
I’ve been saying for a long time that the “filter bubble” thesis is precisely wrong.
-
pause for a moment to reflect on the enormous significance of this
A work of science fiction is never about the time in which it is supposedly set; it’s about the time in which it is written. Which means that the question we should be asking ourselves is why this particular myth […] is the one that’s bubbling through right now.
-
overgrown, with a rich ecosystem: Sheri S Tepper’s Grass
There are schismatic priesthoods! There is legacy Catholicism! There is a vanished alien race and the empty cities it left behind! There is… horse-riding?
-
merely directions which allow the chauffeur to park the limousine
I had to cycle to Rosengรฅrd this morning to get some olive oil—what can I say; it’s a Malmรถ thing, y’all—and so I took it as an opportunity to make a tiny dent in the podcast backlog. My selection, perhaps unwisely for a Monday morning, was a recording of Ash Sarkar interviewing Slavoj ลฝiลพek on…
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].”