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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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we (believe that we) have always lived in the castle
I’ve noticed for some years now a discursive tic in what little fannish media I still consume, in which reviewers rehearse a catechism along the lines of “minority representation in genre literature, both at the level of characters and the level of authors, has always been and still is terrible”. To which my response is…
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i find this line of questioning exhilarating
It was never about “tech”, not least because there’s no such thing as “tech”. There is only people using things to do stuff, and if that is anything, then it is politics.
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print-shop dispatches
Monoprint means just what it says: it’s a print method in which every print is unique. A less aspirational way to phrase that might be: you never know what you’re going to get.
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].”