A Revival of Romantic Letters
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Machines Against Mechanism; or Poetry and the Origin of Technique
Odilon Redon, Orpheus (c. 1903-10). Pastel on brown paper.
Dear Paul,
I’ve been enriched by your essay. In your first paragraph, I was strongly affected by your identifying of “mechanism” and its being used there in a combined sense—that...
Technique and the Poet
This essay originally appeared in the volume Living History: Essays on A. F. Moritz, edited by Jim Johnstone (Gordon Hill Press, 2026). Reprinted with permission. has previously featured two works by : an essay in poetics and an editorial-...
Embracing Proteus
Cy Twombly, Proteus (1984). Oil on canvas.
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…the old one [Proteus] had in no wise forgotten the resources of hi...
Three Gifts and an Invitation
Robert Crumb, “Epilogue” to A Short History of America (1988). Graphic novel.
As the first birthday of Romanticon comes around, I’ve found my days taken up with the organising of a hundredth birthday party. A patchwork of celebrations, sti...
Repost: Romantics from The Rear
Daniel Spaulding
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer in a Sea of Fog (1817). Oil on Canvas, 38.5 x 29.1 in (98 x 74 cm). Hanburger Kunsthalle.
Romanticism had a predilection for the hidden side of things. It stands to reason that the movemen...
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Freelance journalist; author of "This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West." Contact: [email protected]
unextinguished hearth
shootin down the walls of heartache
Author of The Radio Phonics Laboratory. He writes for Igloo Magazine, New Maps quarterly, and is a contributor to the Imaginary Stations program on shortwave radio. He lives in Ohio with his wife. www.sothismedias.com
Literary critic and litterateur. Self-actualizing subject of very late capitalism. Lives in Portugal.
Amit Majmudar's translation of and commentary on the Isha Upanishad
"Have not written anything on this Substack, but I see people have been signing up for the void." -- Helen DeWitt
Art historian and part-time antagonist.
Check out my latest, Reading as Democracy in Crisis https://t.co/Jf4yK4kkXP
Based in the SF-Bay Area, Adam Eric Robbert, PhD, is a philosopher by training, and a writer, editor, and researcher by vocation.
A. F. Moritz's forthcoming books, both scheduled for spring 2026, are The Wren poetry, and Eternities (Fayetteville NY: The Bitter Oleander Press), a translation of Juan Ramon Jimenez's great 1918 book of poems, Eternidades.
Founding Editor of The Hinternet
SHAMAN OF THE AMERICAN GROTESQUE Symbolic Philosophy • Archæofuturism • LDS Druidry Deseret Alphabet: Shosted & Davis https://a.co/d/azRx0B9
Critic and social theorist in New York
Folklorist and storyteller. Essays on the folkloric and occult (sometimes serious, often not). New posts every week. Enquiries: [email protected]
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My writing dreams are humble. Richest man in the world. Playboy. Warlord. Literary Mount Rushmore. Dead by 40, facedown in a ditch. Subscribe to me for fiction and poetry.
social thinker • author • speaker • At Work in the Ruins (2023) • The Dark Mountain Manifesto (2009) with Paul Kingsnorth • a school called HOME • Östervåla • Sweden
Philosopher at Harvard Med, Director of the Public Culture Project at Harvard College. My first book, "To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World, is out soon: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300263626/to-arrive-where-we-started/
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