Dispatches on (sub)culture,
exile, and hospitality from a penman,
paying rent in a house of the holy.
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The Right to Stay Home (Dark Mountain Issue #25)
From Mexico to Macedonia, what happens to those who choose not to migrate?
The Permanent Vacation (Gods & Radicals)
What if tourism doesn’t originate abroad, but at home?
The Automatic Myth (Liminal Journal)
Is AI the culmination of the human mythological saga?
Is AI the culmination of the human mythological saga?
Zelnik, Zbog and the Gods (Dark Mountain Issue #23)
An old-country story about diets and deities, about ancestry and identity, and about how these things, yoked together, can feed us in the places we’ve been starved.
Momentum Derailed: Dispatches on the Fallout, Social Media, and Culture War (Substack)
Looking at our screens, and not just into them, we might see them differently, navigating the polarized waters of increasingly fragmented worlds.
The Search and the Spectacle (The Journal of Wild Culture)
An inveterate traveller, one of the many who spend vast tracts of time touring and backpacking the globe, asks the question: What is everyone looking for?
Drawings by Brad Harley.