bite the dog days that bit you
Low humour in high summer... or is it the other way around? Anyway, here's what happened at Worldbuilding Agency this week.
Hello, worldbuilders! It's your weekly round-up from Worldbuilding Agency.
Essay: a requiem for "The Future"
In case you missed it, here's this week's essay:
Paul Graham Raven
If you'll excuse me donning my sommelier's cape*, you might find that this piece pairs well with the late David Graeber's evergreen essay at The Baffler, "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit". Rereading it today, I feel like I should credit it (and Graeber's work in general) for influencing my thinking.
Weeknotes
Week 30?! Where does the year go? We're halfway through the summer, at least here in Malmö—though you'd not know it from the lashing rain outside as I type this.
Nonetheless, I can feel the muggy, drowsy siren song of the lethargy that's supposed to accompany the so-called dog days of summer... though one assumes the ancient Greeks felt it rather harder, down there by the Mediterranean.
There's not been much opportunity for indulging that lethargy at Worldbuilding Agency HQ, however, as this week's weeknotes attest:
Paul Graham Raven
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[ * Sommeliers wear capes, right? Don't spoil this for me! ]
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