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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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revenant meme
Blog memes: they were a thing in the Noughties, y’know. [grandpa-simpson.gif] Now Matt Webb’s bringin’ sexy back*, and I figure, why the hell not, given it’s books, and I can’t resist a humblebrag about books. So, four questions: How many books do you own? I can’t cite a precise number, but I can state a…
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primarily to encourage us […] to make the decision to care less
Adam Kotsko: One is forced to conclude that political coverage is not meant to inform us about how to vote. What, then, is it for? I have said that the business press is meant for people who are making daily ongoing decisions in pursuit of a clear goal, so what is the equivalent for the…
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payin’ the dues
It’s been one hell of a year. Those of you who’ve been following along will know that in addition to actually finishing my Marie Curie postdoc at Lund—or, perhaps more accurately, coming to the end of the duration of my Marie Curie funding; the project itself looks set to have some sort of continuing existence…
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the moment’s mercies
A timely thing from Uncle Warren: A thing we don’t talk about enough, as writers: the myth that we write a thing by starting at the beginning and just progressing through to the end in purely linear fashion. Very few writers do that. The rest of us jump around in the story, write sections out…
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].”