week 08 / 2025
Be it the guitar music of the post-Millenial moment, or the market shenanigans of the same period—WEEKNOTES dare look back as a way of looking forward!
This week, economics is sacred, and fixes are virtual rather than spatial.
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week 07 / 2025
Old oak bears weight across a sea of years, its splits like lines in a face that's really seen some stuff—but what would it know of WEEKNOTES?
This week, wands are threefold bold and bright, a trilogy comes to an end, and Ted lays down the law.
week 06 / 2025
In February the sun returns slowly, like a scorned but needy god, and we prostrate ourselves before it with offerings of incense, firstborn lambs and WEEKNOTES.
This week, finish lines are approached asymptotically, and the eschaton is retrospectively re-immanentised.
week 05 / 2025
Past the old oak pillar and up the concrete stairs—that's where you'll find the WEEKNOTES, at least until the free beer runs out.
This week, shells are haunted, and implausible worlds imagined with an uncanny thoroughness... oh, and a short story is published, too.
week 04 / 2025
Slipping on the bison-skin cloak, dancing around the fire in the lowering light—WEEKNOTES will banish the unquiet spirits which ail you!
This week, the train remounts the rails, and the deep past is as alien as the far future, while also as familiar as childhood itself.
worldbuilding from the shoulder: an interview with Bruce Sterling (part 2)
It's finally here! The keenly anticipated second part of the Worldbuilding Agency interview with pioneering cyperpunk ideologue turned design critic and tech-art curator, the one and only Bruno Argento...
week 03 / 2025
The sun slouches out from behind the shoulder of the castle—and WEEKNOTES bask in a brief moment of winter morning light. This week, the incubator inducts a new egg, and the English language is instrumentalised.
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schedule adjustment notice
Hello, worldbuilders!
Just a quick note to let you know: it occurred to me this morning that my spending a bunch of time compiling weeknotes which don't get emailed to you, only to then spend a shorter amount of time two days later writing a short note alerting
hot in the city 2nite
Hello worldbuilders! It's 28°C in Malmö this afternoon, and it's reliably been around that temperature in the afternoon for close to a week now.
I quite like hot weather, really, but a lot of other folk are less keen—and I dare say I'
call it in, take it off
Hello, worldbuilders! It's been quiet here this last week, because around this time on the Sunday previous I started thinking "hmm, I don't feel so great", and by the evening I was feeling (as we Brits say) like death warmed over.
Hell knows what
less magic, more traffic
Hello, worldbuilders! It feels a lot like the roundabout just hasn't stopped spinning over the week just gone—and next week it's The Conference, which means the metaphorical carny will be reaching out his hairy hand to give it another good shove... which means there'
pass the vol-au-vents
Hello, worldbuilders! And welcome to those of you who've signed up in the last few days. Glad you could come—take a chair, get yourself a drink. How are things?
We've got no Actual Announcement this week; I would announce again that I've giving
the circus comes to town
Hello, worldbuilders! This is your weekly newsthingy... and we're gonna start with An Actual Announcement.
Talk and workshop: The Conference, Malmö, Mon 26th August 2024
I will be giving a talk entitled Wisdom for worldbuilders: fictions, futures, fandoms on the morning of Mon 26th August.
Said talk is
null but not void
Hello, worldbuilders! What's been happening at Worldbuilding Agency this week?
No essay or interview
Um, yeah—bit of an absence at the middle of the week, wasn't there? Sorry about that.
There's an interview in the pipe, but it's awaiting approval from
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week 24 / 2025
WEEKNOTES is on something like a holiday—so not much to see here for anyone but the serious completists!
week 23 / 2025
Making stories while the sun shines, enjoying the music of the muezzin—WEEKNOTES aspires to feline reincarnation!
This week, Eid is celebrated vicariously, and the philosophy of cats is revealed as a contradiction in terms...
week 22 / 2025
Trekking through the wilderness of story, traversing the desert of the Real—WEEKNOTES wander where they will.
This week, warfare is conducted through comics, and Canada goes its own way...
week 21 / 2025
Hanging pictures on the wall / who can say when WEEKNOTES fall?
This week, pictures are exhibited, and the devil rides out...
week 20 / 2025
Firing up the neutron beam, slicing through the materiality of the text—WEEKNOTES straddles the disciplinary spectrum like Slim Pickens straddled the bomb!
This week, facilities are toured, art is produced, projects are revealed... and houses are haunted?
week 19 / 2025
Counting the beats, coming in on the one—WEEKNOTES rock the rhythm 'til the tune says stop.
This week, we're up in the mountains with Olga Tockarczuk, and down in the valleys of art.
week 18 / 2025
Dodging drunk kids, spurning pagan conflagrations—WEEKNOTES marches into May with flags unfurled!
This week, the grid goes down, but the work goes on.