–China Miéville

Welcome back,

he whispers quietly more to himself than to his audience. It feels like, with every issue of this newsletter, the world has gone to shit a bit more. Maybe that’s a good excuse for having fallen off the bandwagon a bit. 

Or to stop trying to comment on the world affairs and focus on pointing to the unusual, odd, fresh and alternative viewpoints that don’t give you hope but provide you with a starting point from where you just might see the next torch in the fog. That for me is the point about being critical. Not to piss on someone’s parade but to say “we can do better than this.” 

That’s the idea behind most of the articles from the last month that I’ve collected below. Although I fail at it too often myself, I believe that now is the perfect time to spend more time with thinking about and reflecting on the undercurrents. 

Ok, two lightly salted almonds left…