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Paul Graham Raven

Paul is a writer, researcher and consulting critical and creative futures practitioner. He lives in Malmö with a cat, some guitars, and too many books.

week 5 / 2026: pots and kettles

week 5 / 2026: pots and kettles

Reading round-up: exploring what might happen when Medicare meets de-fi and prediction markets; why “innovation” culture would benefit from a more sincere engagement with the darker end of science fiction; and narrative techniques for simultaneous explanation and estrangement.

the right to refuse

the right to refuse

This is a response to “The Right to be Wrong”, Zoe Scaman’s recent piece on technology criticism.

week 4 / 2026: baleen and blubber

week 4 / 2026: baleen and blubber

Reading round-up: seeing monsters in the (geo)political mirror; the paradoxical essence of “community”; the enantiodromia of a far-right Euro-federalism; Melville's Moby Dick considered as science fiction.

week 3 / 2026: pulp and pith

week 3 / 2026: pulp and pith

Reading round-up: the long game of fashion brand narratives; hints of a revivalist Romanticism; the magickal power of naming things; and the creation of history through the storying of the dead.

week 2 / 2026: ... and the circus leaves town

week 2 / 2026: ... and the circus leaves town

Reading round-up: Rodney Brooks reassesses his own AI predictions; Dan Wang holds forth on China (and everything else); Bruce Sterling reports from the depths of the multitool rabbit-hole; an anthology of stories in homage to J G Ballard.

week 01 / 2026: the medium is the maxxage

week 01 / 2026: the medium is the maxxage

Reading round-up: the (temporary?) end of completion; the four laws of media; the failure of USian political science; and the end-game paths of the risk-maxxing paradigm.

week 52 / 2025: minimum viable

week 52 / 2025: minimum viable

Bare bones from the skeleton crew.