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week 39 / 2025: staying with various troubles

week 39 / 2025: staying with various troubles

Utopias and dystopias are equally open to interpretation, as are all narratives of futurity. That's why, for me, the name of the game is to portray the messiness of hopes and fears alongside each other...
Paul Graham Raven Sep 28, 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
worldbuilding from the shoulder: an interview with Bruce Sterling (part 2)

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...
Paul Graham Raven Jan 22, 2025

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