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Pitchdark Futures

Likely futures are not necessarily imaginable

Venkatesh Rao
Sep 17, 2021
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This research note is part of the Clockless Clock book project.

The term grimdark, and its rather anemic and hapless proposed foil hopepunk, have gained currency for classes of futures defined by gloomy apocalyptic visions and progressive, optimistic ones respectively. The term grimdark is a reference to a memeplex associated with the Warhammer 40k game.…

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