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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volume L / summertime rolls
It’s been silent running here for the last few weeks, thanks to a combination of deadlines with minor malaise, both physical and emotional. The deadlines are mostly clear, meaning I’m pretty much ready to take ship—well, train, really—to Bergen on Saturday morning, to work on the first leg of PROJECT TEMPORAL next week.
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we could, if we chose, put the genie back into the bottle
Andrew Dana Hudson is slowly coming round to the Butlerian jihad—or at least to its presence at the negotiating table. The Butlerian Jihad is also the answer to this claim that “the genie is out of the bottle” and we have no choice but to accept these products. There’s lots that we could do that…
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31MAY24 / visual journalling
I’ve been feeling that I am very fortunate to be paid to do interesting things with words. But I am also feeling that I don’t want to find myself totally burned out on words because I haven’t done anything else.
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].”