velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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Paradoxical Containment: The Double Externalization of Packaging, and the Overextension of the Metasystemic Prosthesis
“Paradoxical Containment: The Double Externalization of Packaging, and the Overextension of the Metasystemic Prosthesis” is a chapter in Containment: Holding, Filtering, Leaking (Angerer, Richardson, Schmedes & Sofoulis, eds.), out now in glorious full open access from the good people at Meson Press.
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PSA: new site, subscriptions available; also, calling time on VCTB-by-email
I have a new subscription-based website for writing about my futures work. If you’ve ever felt my writing was worth paying for, and/or that you wanted to support my work, I would greatly appreciate your taking out a paid subscription at the new site.
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composting poptimism / an ecosystemic model of culture
That thing where someone makes an argument you wish you’d made yourself, and furthermore does it in a style whose ugliness belies its incredible efficacy.
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03JUL24 / disenfranchised
Despite all the hoops I jumped through to get registered, my postal vote has not arrived here in Malmö.
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].”