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week 10 / 2026: futures and histories

week 10 / 2026: futures and histories

Reading round-up: defining “interiority” in fiction, and how it works; science fiction (and fantasy) as essentially historical in character; declining “declinism” in the struggle for a new media literacy. Plus a 1993 novel that feels like it was plucked from the fevered nightmares of Elon Musk.
Paul Graham Raven Mar 8, 2026
week 8 / 2026: maps and compasses

week 8 / 2026: maps and compasses

Reading round-up: wind-powered freight (and how I think about weak signals); how audiences have come to understand the working of worlds; what science fiction has to teach strategists.
Paul Graham Raven Feb 22, 2026
week 42 / 2025: reinventing the wheel

week 42 / 2025: reinventing the wheel

What’s the value of worldbuilding around the questions of a green transition, when participants could be spending their time developing products and services instead? I have answers!
Paul Graham Raven Oct 19, 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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