Tag: capitalism
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The Naked Lunch: Christmas and capitalism
Here’s a great opening ‘graph for a seasonal cyberpunk satire: “I heard my first Christmas music of the year in District 1. It was the 1st of August, 27ºC outside and All I Want For Christmas was drifting out of a market stall dedicated to selling Santa hats.” Only it’s not from a piece of…
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Some speculations on speculation
I appeared on a panel about Speculative Design at LonCon3 over the weekend just gone, and one of my fellow panellists, architect and writer Nic Clear, mentioned that he had some misgivings over the use of the word “speculative”. It’s always had two meanings, after all: there’s the imaginative, extrapolative and science fictional sense in…