{"id":6218,"date":"2021-11-12T14:59:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=6218"},"modified":"2023-06-15T20:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:24:16","slug":"the-territory-to-be-mapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-territory-to-be-mapped\/","title":{"rendered":"The territory to be mapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  It&#8217;s more like the job of a science fiction writer is not to map the territory, but to point out that there&#8217;s territory to be mapped.<\/p>\n<p>  Science fiction is about pointing out that there are things that are out of the frame [in real life] that don&#8217;t properly belong out of the frame, whose ruling out is arbitrary\u2014or customary, which is another way of saying the same thing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2017\/07\/12\/cory-doctorows-fully-automated\/\">Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s more like the job of a science fiction writer is not to map the territory, but to point out that there&#8217;s territory to be mapped. Science fiction is about pointing out that there are things that are out of the frame [in real life] that don&#8217;t properly belong out of the frame, whose ruling&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-territory-to-be-mapped\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386,369,379,385],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-6218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept-design","category-futurism","category-science-fiction","category-writing-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1Ci","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6323,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions\/6323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}