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The Cancellation Policy
“When attractive opportunities abound… we are apt to be willing to pay a little and accept some small, even trivial cost of doing business for access to…
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For Those Who’d Prefer Not To
On Democracy, Technology, and the False Promises of Universal Participation
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Fear the Eclipse
Why “Ancient Superstition” Was Preferable to Whatever We're Doing Now
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March 2024

Neo-Utilitarians Are Utter Philistines
1. Here on the banks of the Seine it can be hard to notice new trends in the Anglosphere before they have already arrived in the phase of their full…
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The Storyteller
I am old and my memory is not what it used to be, but if I recall correctly it was in 1948 that I first came up, in a fit of inspiration, with the basic…
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The Reeds and the Silt
“The starry heavens above me and the moral law within[, and the sediments of the Memel, and the amber deposits at Palmnicken, and the moss on the rocks…
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An Ocean of Data
By the time I finish writing this sentence, vastly more data will have been generated around the world than was produced in the entire 18th century…
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Occupation: Jean Cocteau
Part 1
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February 2024

Croissants to Die For
Plus, the Hyena of the Gestapo, Chicken's King, &c.
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From Rubber Soul to Revolver
1. A journal entry from me, dated January 1, 1984, records a list of what appear to be New Year’s resolutions. Most of them are unimaginative, and only…
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Twice-Found Sounds
For Lent I have, among other ascetic gestures, closed my Substack “Notes” application. It is the thing I hate most about this platform — it has…
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Interferences
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