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narratology

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
week 27 / 2025: on models and literacies

week 27 / 2025: on models and literacies

"All models are wrong, but some models are useful"—so the saying goes. But how are they wrong, and how are they useful? And what does that mean for thinking about futures?
Paul Graham Raven Jul 6, 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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