Patrick Neilsen Hayden has a recent post suggesting that we’re living in a Ken MacLeod novel (Brad de Long picks up on this too). And the empirical evidence seems unassailable; political actors who are driven by a bizarre mixture of ideology and personal ambition, vast wobbly conspiracies that are nearly, but not quite, comprehensible; shadow-wars conducted with futuristic weaponry.
But what does Ken MacLeod think himself??? You can now find out for yourself: check out Ken’s very own personal blog (found via BoingBoing). Very interesting, if infrequently updated.
On a personal note, if there are any awards out there for Most Gratuitous Reference to Ken MacLeod in a Purportedly Academic Work, I hereby claim first dibs for this piece. It was written for a volume edited by Russell Hardin, who is quite fond of using high culture references in his books and articles on political theory; I thought that some good genre fiction would counterbalance things a bit.
Posted by Henry at April 15, 2003 11:32 AM | TrackBack