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week 30 / 2025: in defence of magickal thinking

week 30 / 2025: in defence of magickal thinking

Divination and foresight are a deal less different than some practitioners in either camp would have you believe—both address questions of strategy through the sensemaking process of storytelling. Perhaps you'd like a free trial by way of demonstration? Then roll up, roll up, and step this way...
Paul Graham Raven Jul 27, 2025
week 29 / 2025: rifts in the schismatrix

week 29 / 2025: rifts in the schismatrix

Here's another way to look at the difference between science fiction and fiction-for-futures: the former is art, the latter is artifice.
Paul Graham Raven Jul 20, 2025
design designs designers: an interview with Cameron Tonkinwise (part 1)

design designs designers: an interview with Cameron Tonkinwise (part 1)

In this first half of my interview with Cameron Tonkinwise, we discuss design as a practice that necessarily takes place in an already-designed context, and what that practice has in common with worldbuilding.
Paul Graham Raven Apr 23, 2025
nowhere to go but further in: a hypothesis of fandom intensity

nowhere to go but further in: a hypothesis of fandom intensity

The differences in dynamic between the fandoms of primary- and secondary-world media can tell us a lot about the micropolitics of future imaginaries.
Paul Graham Raven Apr 2, 2025

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