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  • 12DEC22 / accessions

    A delayed-in-the-mail batch of non-fiction, and presumably the last accessions of the year… perhaps even for a while? I think I need to stage some sort of intervention on myself, this habit’s getting out of hand.

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  • 11DEC22 / accessions

    This second-hand selection is brought to you live from the National Museum in Stockholm, where I have reconvened with L____ after she kindly turned me loose in a local oddball bookstore before retreating to a cafe. S’how you know it’s love, innit?

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  • 08DEC22 / accessions

    A double-drop catch-up from the accessions department. First batch were bought last weekend. WicDiv #3 because I’ve started and feel I want to continue; the Rian Hughes because I bought XX some time last year in hardback and the sheer mass of the thing keeps putting me off starting it, so figured maybe The Black…

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  • science found it hard to converse with the rest of society

    Nice to see a typically long LRB review of Latour’s last two books, but Harding makes a bit of a blunder here, perhaps due to his not having been party to decades of STS discourse: There was a hint in We Have Never Been Modern that science found it hard to converse with the rest…

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  • the theology of capital

    The primary product sold by all management consultants – both software developers and strategic organisers – is the theology of capital. This holds that workers are expendable. They can be replaced by machines, or by harder-working employees grateful they weren’t let go in the last round of redundancies. Managers are necessary to the functioning of…

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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].”

Paul is consulting writer, researcher, theorist and foresight practitioner, as well as an author and critic of science fiction literature. More details can be found on the About page of this blog.