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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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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,…
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this battlestation is fully operational
The various registrations of my new firm went through the week before last, but it’s only now that I’ve returned home to find the bank card for the business bank account waiting for me that I feel like I can really act as this commercial entity which I have—perhaps rashly?—summoned into existence. Feels good, if…
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].”