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week 36 / 2025: at the intersection of three things

week 36 / 2025: at the intersection of three things

I've been going on about this "narrative prototyping" thing for ages now, but how does it differ from science fiction and/or design fiction? Well, since you asked...
Paul Graham Raven Sep 7, 2025
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 28 / 2025: the concretisation of metaphor

week 28 / 2025: the concretisation of metaphor

The tools of science fiction can be put to use in the storying of scenarios, but in such cases, they are means to a somewhat different end. How might we usefully describe that distinction?
Paul Graham Raven Jul 13, 2025
unknown pleasures: an interview with Cameron Tonkinwise (part 2)

unknown pleasures: an interview with Cameron Tonkinwise (part 2)

In the second part of my interview with Cameron Tonkinwise, we discuss Transition Design, prefigurative politics, dramaturgy, narratology, imagination, and... urban cycling as filtered through the philosophy of Georges Bataille?
Paul Graham Raven May 14, 2025

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