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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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malevolent pigs
Seems like there’s skulduggery afoot in the Baltic: The three leaks — two in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline north-east of Bornholm, and one in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline south-east of the island — caused disturbances in the sea up to 1km wide, according to the Danish defence forces. @FinancialTimes https://www.ft.com/content/294e441d-7b24-4144-a51f-75bdf70d723c I have largely…
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days when the number of words isn’t that great
Synchronicity, thy name is INTERNETS. Two academics reflecting on the frequency and quantity of their writing practice, published so close together that it can only have been accidental! In order of posting, it’s Dave Beer first, discussing a newsletter by Irina Dumitrescu in which she… … gently pushes against more oppressive notions of productivity. This…
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maureen
I can’t recall the first time I meet Maureen Kincaid Speller, but I assume (with some sense of certainty) that it would have been at one of the first few BSFA gatherings I attended in London, some time back in the Noughties. I found her an easy person to like, which is rarer than you…
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give ’em enough hope
At the end of this bleak but oddly comforting long-read from Marlowe Hood—whose name suggests he missed out on a potential career as a noir gumshoe character—is this quote from one of the many climate scientists and activists Hood has interviewed over the years: “Hope is an active verb,” said [Clover] Hogan. “We continue to…
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].”