week 33 / 2024
Muggy, sticky, clammy... and that's just my handshake! This week, we've got Kentucky gentlemen and New Yorickan communists, and a whole lot more besides.
Paul Graham Raven
against the ideas of the nineteen-hundreds: an interview with Karl Schroeder
An interview with author, designer and foresight practitioner Karl Schroeder, on worldbuilding (of course), narrative as an analytical tool, leaving behind the ideas of the nineteen-hundreds, and much more.
the circus comes to town
Hello, worldbuilders! This is your weekly newsthingy... and we're gonna start with An Actual Announcement.
Talk and workshop: The Conference, Malmö, Mon 26th August 2024
I will be giving a talk entitled Wisdom for worldbuilders: fictions, futures, fandoms on the morning of Mon 26th August.
Said talk is
week 32 / 2024
Malmöfestivalen and the rain have arrived in town at the same time; who will win? We ask this and much much more in this week's Worldbuilding Agency weeknotes... now in an exciting new format!
it isn't the phones (but it isn't not the phones)
Let's clamber into the express elevator with Karl Schroeder, and have a little think about EVs and the Doomscroll. Mind the doors!
null but not void
Hello, worldbuilders! What's been happening at Worldbuilding Agency this week?
No essay or interview
Um, yeah—bit of an absence at the middle of the week, wasn't there? Sorry about that.
There's an interview in the pipe, but it's awaiting approval from
week 31 / 2024
This week: weeknotes go meta!