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loungin’

I was really very lucky to find a luxury cat-bed that does double service as a sofa.

8 Jul 2023

We need to have a chat about worldbuilding. (I’m mostly talking to the futures people, here, rather than the literature people… but the latter may find it of interest anyway, so please stick around!) Your man Dré “Daily Design Fiction” Labre posted a little thing about the movie After Yang (which I have not seen).…

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7 Jul 2023

solar matter stomache-ache

So it seems I got a rise out of Matt Webb with my response to his “eating the sun” thing a week or so back. This was not exactly my intention—I had little expectation he’d actually read the thing, tbh—but I’m kinda pleased, for reasons which I’m going to try to explain here, as much…

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Climate Change 🙜 Criticism 🙜 Futures 🙜 Philosophy 🙜 Science Fiction 🙜 Social Theory

4 Jul 2023

guten morgen, Hamburg

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General

28 Jun 2023

the unbearable lightness of blockchain: utopian visions and invisible infrastructures

As already noted, this has been a strange and hectic year so far, with a whole lot of public talking in the last month and a bit. Not all of these were video’d for public consumption, but some were, and I’m gonna stuff them up here over the next few days, partly because I unwisely…

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Appearances 🙜 Climate Change 🙜 Criticism 🙜 Futures 🙜 Infrastructural Theory 🙜 Politics 🙜 Social Theory 🙜 Technology

26 Jun 2023

loungin’

an apologia for worldbuilding

solar matter stomache-ache

guten morgen, Hamburg

the unbearable lightness of blockchain: utopian visions and invisible infrastructures

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