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science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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Swans
Intense. More like some sort of art ritual than a gig, in a way; the first “piece” was almost half an hour long, partly improvised, big slow dynamics, old man Gira controlling the vibe by waving and shaking his arms around above his head, while the band cranks the volume and intensity up and down.…
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the Torment Nexus and the death of satire
If you can look at the technological paradigm of which you consider yourself to be a celebrant, and tell yourself it feels like Douglas Adams, you should be running for the exits (having taken care to take your towel with you, naturally).
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fyra år i Malmö
I rolled into this town four years ago today. This is a rather less notable or triumphant anniversary than that of Cory Doctorow’s establishment of Pluralistic, which was four years ago yesterday—but I dare say he too ends up saying to people “you know, the week when the Covid pandemic really became a thing?”, or…
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15FEB24 / workshopping
Uptown Malmö, early morning, kicking off the latest foresight cycle with the Media Evolution crew, because this is Sweden, and coffee counters the darkness. Futures of music, anyone?
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futures of digital work in a fortnight from now
At 8am on Tuesday 27th February, MediaEvolution Malmö are launching the book which is the result of their latest community foresight cycle, which took as its topic “the futures of digital work”. The book contains five fictions by yours truly—storified versions of the five scenarios that the core contributors came up with across four days…
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].”