The Blackthorn Hedge
John EncaustumA brake and border for the more trampled fields of the open Internet.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 51 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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Social Shadows and Social Light
Welcome to the Blackthorn Hedge. Today’s letter explores a natural expressive figure, the “social shadow,” expanding on the naturalistic analogy between social invisibilities or concealments and true shadows, similarly to letters like “The...
The Ages of Schmeason
Welcome to the Blackthorn Hedge. Today’s letter is a relatively light one, but with some links to follow if you’d like more. It’s a light, incomplete gloss of an early, under-appreciated Italian Enlightenment thinker’s idea of how and why n...
Incompetence or Malice?
Welcome to the Blackthorn Hedge. This letter begins a new arc of 24 letters, Arc 3, and it should stand alone without prior familiarity with my earlier letters; it keeps references light until the end. If you would like a summary of what I’...
Laying the Hedge: Arc 2
Welcome to The Blackthorn Hedge. This letter is my 48th since starting this project, my 24th letter since my last recap at 24, so I’ve used it as another recap and transition. This also discusses why I took a break and some of what I was do...
Lorraine Daston as a Touchstone
Welcome to the Blackthorn Hedge, to the first letter after a long hiatus. This is one final letter of Arc 2 before I write a summary and begin Arc 3. This introduces the work of the historian of science Lorraine Daston as an ideological tou...
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