a little wound that took days to heal

November 29, 2024

I just realized that I haven’t written an email for this Mailing List in a while. I’d like to say that I don’t know where the time went. But I know exactly...

A book is a beginning, not an end

November 2, 2024

Before I get started — I got a bunch of goodies for you — a little bit of housekeeping. First of all, after I sent my last email I received an unusually high...

And now for something completely different

October 18, 2024

The following might be very obvious to a lot of people. But because I don’t think we talk about it as much as I think we should, I also think that of those...

Eastern European dentistry

October 6, 2024

About a month ago, I started something a little bit different. I decided that every day, I would take at least one photograph in my immediate surroundings —...

Crisis? What Crisis?

September 22, 2024

Last week, I wrote a long essay about the creative crisis I have been dealing with for a while, only to delete the whole thing once it was done. I was...

odd and mysterious, but harmless (a pointless thing that I enjoy)

September 2, 2024

I’m currently re-reading a number of Japanese novels for what might or might not become my next book (of writing/criticism). I read most of the books...

On Shtick

August 18, 2024

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about something that I will describe as shtick. It’s probably not the best word to use. But since I am in a challenging...

Germany's Enemy Within

August 3, 2024

In this email, I will mostly be writing about my own photography. If you’re looking for links to articles instead, the next email will be back to “normal”....

a few crocodile tears for their colleagues

July 28, 2024

I was going to include this article in my previous email. Then I realized that I hadn’t fully read it, yet. But now I have. It focuses on what you can do...

Can we talk about art writing?

July 14, 2024

In the following, I will write about the ideas and/or goals behind my own writing. If that’s not your cup of tea, please wait for the next email. The idea...

Do Androids Dream of Imaginary Movies About Themselves?

June 30, 2024

You might remember the above part of a meme from my last email. I decided that I needed to write about the inflation of shortlists and the fact that we now...

You're all on the shortlist!

June 15, 2024

Welcome to another edition of this Mailing List! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Welcome to the Pleasurefreedome

May 26, 2024

Welcome to another edition of this Mailing List! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

I wish I could tell you what I think about the Venice Biennale

May 11, 2024

Welcome to another edition of this Mailing List! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

on their own terms, without the boxes

April 21, 2024

Welcome to another edition of this Mailing List! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

It's shrimp Jesus time!

March 26, 2024

Welcome to the 116th edition of this Mailing List! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too....

Unpacking my library

March 22, 2024

Welcome to the 115th edition of this Mailing List! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too....

I almost wrote "brilliant read", but I caught myself.

March 7, 2024

Welcome to the 114th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

The look of extreme artificiality

February 20, 2024

Welcome to the 113th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

On geniuses, hard work, rabbit holes, and lost cats

February 8, 2024

Welcome to the 110th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

"Some books are so utterly bad..."

January 25, 2024

Welcome to the 109th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

When is good enough good enough?

January 20, 2024

Welcome to the 108th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Notes on moving (or rather on avoiding to pack more boxes)

January 7, 2024

Welcome to the 107th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2024

Welcome to the 106th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Snap!

December 21, 2023

Welcome to the 105th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Monsters (and other people)

December 10, 2023

Welcome to the 104th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

The self-defeat of precarity

November 26, 2023

Welcome to the 103rd edition of this newsletter! There are not going to be any links to smart articles in the following. If you're looking for these, you can...

something that is more or less uncommunicable

November 22, 2023

Welcome to the 102nd edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Better luck this time?

November 7, 2023

Welcome to the 101st edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

I want the blood to be unspilled (RE-SEND)

October 26, 2023

A sizeable number of subscribers (about 1 in 5) did not receive this email when I sent it out last weekend. As far as I was able to tell, the problem...

I want the blood to be unspilled

October 21, 2023

Welcome to the 100th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

We tend to not think about how our thoughts are poison

October 12, 2023

Welcome to the 99th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Can I Interest You In A Yellow Swimsuit?

September 29, 2023

Welcome to the 98th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Recent Experiments

September 24, 2023

Welcome to the 97th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

workday.hr photocorp

September 16, 2023

Welcome to the 96th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

The Long Shadow

September 7, 2023

Welcome to the 95th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

The Masterlist of 15 Differences

August 29, 2023

Welcome to the 94th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Cold smoke and chronic desperation

August 26, 2023

Welcome to the 92nd edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

RIP Balltze

August 21, 2023

Welcome to the 92nd edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

We need to de-white-cube our culture

August 12, 2023

Welcome to the 91st edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

That's a $79 printer for you

August 3, 2023

Welcome to the 90th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

A History of Darkness

July 31, 2023

Welcome to the 89th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

He and it are dead and he and it are going to die.

July 29, 2023

Welcome to the 88th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Looks like supererogatoriness isn't an actual word

July 15, 2023

Welcome to the 87th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Fake pictures that look real, and real pictures that look fake

July 8, 2023

Welcome to the 86th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

There's something wrong with us

July 1, 2023

Welcome to the 85th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

I could have figured that out myself

June 18, 2023

Welcome to the 84th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Ever wondered what the rest of this email looks like?

June 11, 2023

Welcome to the 83rd edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Three Weeks in Budapest

May 30, 2023

Welcome to the 82nd edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...

Missing Link: Death of an Artist

May 2, 2023

I just realized that there's a link missing in my latest email. I quoted Heinrich Holtgreve but forgot to include the link to the piece. You can read the...