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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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paradigms don’t die easy (but they die all the same)
There’s a fin-de-siècle feel to things at the moment, which manifests (for me at least) as a sort of oscillation between deep ennui and the feeling one gets just before dawn at the summer solstice.
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06MAY24 / video of Copenhagen worldbuilding lecture
The video of my lecture at Copenhagen University last month is available for your viewing pleasure.
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that boy needs therapy
The dopey dad-joke non sequiturs of “Frontier Psychiatrist”, the inescapable hit single, set my teeth a-grind from the very first listen, precisely because they seem so calculated, in a manner that’s entirely of a piece with the masterful joinery of the music itself.
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begin to remake who we are and how we live
On the one hand, [Buckminster] Fuller’s philosophy of change seems too hopeful now; it’s fair to wonder whether we have time for it.
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29APR24 / first third
April’s on its way out of the door, and we finally had an unambiguously spring-y weekend in Malmö, all clear bright skies and two-figure temperatures. I’m always drawing lines in the figurative calendar, and perhaps one day I’ll do the work to find out just what sort of possibly pathological origins that habit might have.…
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].”