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Paul Graham Raven

Paul is a writer, researcher and consulting critical and creative futures practitioner. He lives in Malmö with a cat, some guitars, and too many books.

Week 24 / 2024

Week 24 / 2024

Welcome back to weeknotes at Worldbuilding Agency! This week has mostly involved: * the production of stories for the latest collaborative foresight cycle book from Media Evolution, plus * a certain amount of admin, and a related amount of hurry-up-and-wait, related to PROJECT TEMPORAL (Yes, I have grudgingly decided to give the

Week 23 / 2024

Week 23 / 2024

Well, here we are again. Operations at Magrathea Futures this week have included co-planning a workshop to be delivered at the end of the month, and the slow, patient rebooting of a focussed reading-for-research practice. More news on these in weeks to come—and also on the glorious paleofutures pictured

Week 22 / 2024

Week 22 / 2024

Well, where did that week go? This is, of course, the question that weeknotes are meant to answer... but the philosophers among you will surely acknowledge (however grudgingly) that no answer can ever be complete. One Big Thing This week's big thing was surely two days of workshops

Week 21 / 2024

Week 21 / 2024

This has been a difficult week, for reasons I can't quite explain, even to myself. Difficult isn't even the right word, really; it's just been a week in which it's been hard to get any traction. There's various reasons one

Week 20 / 2024

Week 20 / 2024

What I intend for these weeknotes is that they focus on, or at least feature prominently, the work I've been doing in the week that they're for. That won't always be practical, of course: sometimes there will be work that can't be

Week 19 / 2024

Week 19 / 2024

Welcome to weeknotes at Worldbuilding Agency! Let's get to it... One Big Thing The top half of this week saw me sitting in on the first two days of workshops for the latest collaborative foresight cycle at Media Evolution (see header image). This time the topic is infrastructure,

Week 18 / 2024

Week 18 / 2024

This is not only the first #weeknotes post on Worldbuilding Agency, but the first post, period. That means there's no precedent for the format yet. Beyond having decided that a weeknotes practice would be both appropriate and beneficial for this site—which bills itself as the online research