Tag: Science Fiction
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PGR vs JCC
The feature interview in this month’s issue of Now Then Magazine is the result of yours truly having a chat with the bard of Salford himself, Dr John Cooper Clarke. Residents of Rust City can pick up a pulped-wood copy from all the usual places, while those elsewhere can peruse it in electronic form via…
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Snapshots from a workshop
Fast times at Sarum College, Salisbury. Thanks to DSTL for hosting.
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Review of Carl Abbot’s Imagining Urban Futures at Planning Theory & Practice
After a dozen years of writing book reviews, this is the first one I’ve had published in an academic journal*. Here’s the intro: It’s long been a truism of science fiction (sf) scholarship that the genre has rarely dealt with the city as anything more than an engineering problem to be solved. I said as…
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It’s about data and smugness.
In practice, I don’t know that mainstream economists really care that much about the “ends” side of things. For instance, when they talk about “demand,” they aren’t talking about how many people actually want something or how badly they want it. For these guys, “demand” is the quantity of a commodity that people are willing…