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Weeknotes/ week 08 / 2025 Be it the guitar music of the post-Millenial moment, or the market shenanigans of the same period—WEEKNOTES dare look back as a way of looking forward! This week, economics is sacred, and fixes are virtual rather than spatial. https://www.worldbuilding.agency/weeknotes/…

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easy solutions to problems of unfathomable scale

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the truth will out

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drill, baby, drill

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Weeknotes/ week 07 / 2025 Old oak bears weight across a sea of years, its splits like lines in a face that's really seen some stuff—but what would it know of WEEKNOTES? This week, wands are threefold bold and bright, a trilogy comes to an end, and Ted lays down the law. https://www.worldbuilding…

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Weeknotes/ week 06 / 2025 In February the sun returns slowly, like a scorned but needy god, and we prostrate ourselves before it with offerings of incense, firstborn lambs and WEEKNOTES. This week, finish lines are approached asymptotically, and the eschaton is retrospectively re-immanentised. …

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the myopia of futurism

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global village people

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the appeal is the idea that the world can be overturned

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Weeknotes/ week 05 / 2025 Past the old oak pillar and up the concrete stairs—that's where you'll find the WEEKNOTES, at least until the free beer runs out. This week, shells are haunted, and implausible worlds imagined with an uncanny thoroughness... oh, and a short story is published, too. htt…

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listen up

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some thoughts on the stock market 4369

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the ontological flinch of a transitional generation

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Weeknotes/ week 04 / 2025 Slipping on the bison-skin cloak, dancing around the fire in the lowering light—WEEKNOTES will banish the unquiet spirits which ail you! This week, the train remounts the rails, and the deep past is as alien as the far future, while also as familiar as childhood itself.…

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mutually assured distraction: a plea for generative disarmament

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Interviews/ 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... https…

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nothing was learned

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a black hole full of light

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Weeknotes/ week 3 / 2025 The sun slouches out from behind the shoulder of the castle—and WEEKNOTES bask in a brief moment of winter morning light. This week, the incubator inducts a new egg, and the English language is instrumentalised. https://www.worldbuilding.agency/weeknotes/week-3-2025/

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the Way is the way things are

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adversarial customer service

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Weeknotes/ week 02 / 2025 The winter is deep and dark, and the forest is frightening—but we've fire on which to cook the quarry, and light by which to write the WEEKNOTES. This week, the hunt is begun once more, and the optimal forsworn. https://www.worldbuilding.agency/weeknotes/week-02-2025/

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beyond the douchbaggery of dogs: attentional guideropes and negative worldbuilding in Flow

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Essays/ dimensions of experience: a (very) preliminary theory of futuring By considering futures as narratives, we open up the possibility of a comparative analysis of the many different modes (and media) of the practice of futuring. This unlocks in turn the further possibilities of collaboration,…

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Weeknotes/ week 01 / 2025 I did not spend this week sat in a bosky grove, reading aloud a saucy missive to my BFF and a nosy goat... but, truth be told, it might have been better if I had? This week in WEEKNOTES, a well-known lesson is relearned the hard way, and darkness descends upon the acade…

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optimise has no exact antonym

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Weeknotes/ week 52 / 2024 Wandering around the city graveyard, gloved hands deep in the pockets of your long, dark coat—old goths never die, they just start writing WEEKNOTES. This week, biology is hacked (and punked), and a gold-rush refused. https://www.worldbuilding.agency/weeknotes/week-52-20…

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every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading

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Weeknotes/ week 51 / 2024 Snoozing on a tree-branch, dreaming of tasty, crunchy mice—OK, so maybe the owl is not the shoo-in candidate for WEEKNOTES spirit-animal that I thought it might be. (That said, NO REGRETS!) This week, pods have been casted and loose ends tidied, and interiority is explo…

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solstice

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Weeknotes/ week 50 / 2024 Slaughtering a pig in the village high-street, making barbed asides about "AI" filler images—looks like WEEKNOTES are dealing with the shortest days of the year with the usual cheery bonhomie! This week, a psychopomp is performed, and the commons turn out to be less tragi…

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Interviews/ deliberate oxymorons: an interview with Bruce Sterling (part 1) In the first part of this two-part interview, OG cyberpunk Bruce Sterling discusses the pursuit of deliberate oxymorons as a creative strategy, worldbuilding in the context of history and futurity, Berlusconi on the moon, …

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let’s just act with a bit of [a] sense of humility

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Weeknotes/ week 49 / 2024 Back in a groove of routine, riding the rails to the turn of the year—time to deck the halls with bales of WEEKNOTES! This week, the uneventfulness is all the news that fit to print. https://www.worldbuilding.agency/weeknotes/week-49-2024/

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this will be the last VCTB post you receive by email

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Weeknotes/ week 48 / 2024 Kneeling on the tiled floor, offering thanks and libations to the gods of ablutions—pray wash away the sin of impatience with WEEKNOTES! This week, many new projects are named, and the egg prepares to enter the incubator. https://www.worldbuilding.agency/weeknotes/week-4…

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the poet as cultural cockroach

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Weeknotes/ week 47 / 2024 Dunking a bog-brush into Putin's brain-pan, ranting about robots and Philip K Dick—sure, they claim it's WEEKNOTES, but that's just what they want you to think, maaaan! This week, renovation approaches completion, and slavery is a concretised metaphor. https://www.wo…

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mistaking prompting for the creation of art is like mistaking bid-writing for the doing of research

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we’re so quick to rebuild the same dynamics in new spaces

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Weeknotes/ week 46 / 2024 Elbow-deep in your wardrobe, shaking the silverfish out of your winter jackets and coats—turn up your collar and face the WEEKNOTES! This week, shops have been worked, and solarities speculated upon. https://www.worldbuilding.agency/weeknotes/week-46-2024/

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People on this website: "this could be the new Twitter!" Me: that's pretty much exactly what I'm afraid of. This node will be POSSE broadcast only. Will maybe check for replies and DMs from time to time, but please donöt count on it. I'm easily contactable by other means with greater bandwidth.

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