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a blog by Paul Graham Raven
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06SEP22 / accessions
A review assignment, from the MIT Press / Josh Glenn Radium Age SF series. Wonderful, striking design.
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farvel Stavanger
Stimulating handful of days here in Stavanger for the Petrocultures conference, at which a bunch of us Climaginarians performed yet another instance of the increasingly sprawling Carbon Ruins extended cinematic universe. Lots of interesting panels and talks, obvs, plus the productive cognitive dissonance of enviro-critical scholars holding an event at a national oil museum… and…
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just stopped to get my bearings
This terrible visual pun brought to you from Stavanger, Norway.
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Worm Wards end Otherways
Three things make a post, we used to say, back in the nostalgically glossed golden age of blogging… so here’s three things based on my being about half way through the Penguin Classics reissue of James Tiptree Jr.’s collection Warm Worlds and Otherwise. Let’s get the crabby complaint out of the way first. Look, it’s…
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13AUG22 / accessions
Actually bought yesterday, but whatevs. Doom Patrol 2 because the first one was OK. The Liu because I’ve been enjoying Monstress, so why not see what she can do with words alone? The Palmer because look I thought we agreed not to talk about this and anyway I’ve invested a bunch of time on the…
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].”