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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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Butlerian jihad (slight return)
I have mostly tried to avoid both consuming and contributing to The “AI” Discourse, having in essence made my point almost a year ago and encountered little since then that has served to do anything but reinforce my feelings on the matter. But I’m breaking that fast for this observation, which is really (and perhaps…
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cards on the table
… cards in your hand. That’s what you can expect to get the next time you meet me in person—because there ain’t much point in getting business cards printed unless you put them in people’s hands, right? (This logotype was designed for me a few years back by Bevin Richardson, a.k.a. ENSO. Nice to be…
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shelved
Well, would you look at that. For an assortment of reasons, but mostly happenstance, the vast majority of my fiction has been published in the US, and/or by fairly small presses. As such, I think this is the only time I’ve been able to just wander into a bookstore—my local bookstore, in this case, namely…
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workshoppin’
In uptown Malmö today, at the first of a sequence of six collaborative foresight workshops being run by local collective Media Evolution. I’m not here as a participant, however; rather, I’m here as a writer first and foremost. ME’s foresight cycles produce a book as their final output, and I’ll be writing a good chunk…
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cornucopia
Filing under “things to be thankful for”: A week’s worth of fruit’n’veg for 88SEK—roughly equivalent to 6.50GBP at current rates of exchange. The open market on Möllevångstorget in Malmö is, I’m told, essentially unique in Sweden; there are fancy “farmer’s markets” in other towns and cities, but no six-days-a-week outdoor trade in basic fresh produce,…
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].”