"Nothing is ever simple. Nostalgia protects and nostalgia poisons, and still we go back for more."

Jess Love for The American Scholar:
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-last-good-thing/

#Longreads #Essay #Nostalgia #Streaming #DVDs #Technology #Parenting

‪TY, ‪@peterbreuer.bsky.social‬, hallo #Bluesky fam, habt einen erfüllenden Tag! Was sind eure schlimmsten Ängste, und wie kürzt man sie neudeutsch* ab? *Siehe Screenshot mit #Essay und #ALText: #inclusion is #fairness. #AuthorssOfBluesky, #writingCommunity: bis zu 8.3k Zeichen/Beitrag! #Humor

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:api2mizqokk6i2knxzuvo34x/post/3makxidr2422z

Luke Howard's Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/essay-on-the-modification-of-clouds/

#HackerNews #LukeHoward #Essay #Clouds #1865 #PublicDomainReview #WeatherScience

Writing about the difficulty of moving out of a place.

https://last-night-i-dreamed-i-was-you.ghost.io/in-the-heart-of-winter/

#writing #philosophy #essay

Mein Essay: Die Welt am Abgrund?
https://gerisbuchblog.blogspot.com/2022/12/klappentext-anfang-des-21.html

#Essay, #wirtschaft, #Lesen, #Politik, #Sachbuch, #Gesellschaft, #blog

Sexual Liberation 1920s Style: The Screenwriting Career of Josephine Lovett – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, December 2025

In the Silent Era, before the existence of the Hays Code (and largely a cause for it), many female screenwriters wrote heroines who flouted the brazen sexual freedom of the new century, a specialty of Josephine “Jo” Lovett. Born in October 1877 in San Francisco Lovett would spend some time as a lead actress on the Broadway stage before moving to Los Angeles to both act and write what were called scenarios for the bulk of her career.

https://rosannewelch.com/2025/12/20/sexual-liberation-1920s-style-the-screenwriting-career-of-josephine-lovett-dr-rosanne-welch-script-magazine-december-2025/

#script #screenwriting #history #women #writing #writer #column #essay #film #movies #tv

From Missouri to Musicals: The Screenwriting Career of Dorothy Yost – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2025

Born on April 25, 1899 in St. Louis, Missouri to Alice Kern and Robert M. Yost, Dorothy moved to Los Angeles to work in the burgeoning film industry and clearly succeeded in that goal.  By the time she died in 1967 Yost had written over 80 films and achieved what many other writers did not – thriving in both Silent Films and into the Sound Era. Interestingly, it was her foray into film that brought her journalist brother Robert Yost into the film industry after she found her footing there. Her first screenwriting credit came in 1920, his in 1935 after some years on the staff of local newspapers, as publicity director for Fox West Coast Studios and finally head of the scenario department for Fox.

https://rosannewelch.com/2025/12/20/from-missouri-to-musicals-the-screenwriting-career-of-dorothy-yost-dr-rosanne-welch-script-magazine-november-2025/

#script #screenwriting #history #women #writing #writer #column #essay #film #movies #tv

Skateboard now. Booze later.

Only the young can fully exploit the human body’s potential. To wait is too late.

https://piefed.social/c/skateboarding/p/1589688/skateboard-now-booze-later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsaaMIfoieg

Ein wunderbarer Film übers Fotografieren - sehr empfehlenswert

#photography #essay #naturelove #nature #naturephotography

My latest substack.
"I must be craaazy to want to help you!"

#Media #MediaLiteracy #Essay #FunWriting #Writing #WritingCommunity

https://markharbinger.substack.com/p/the-treason-of-the-artist

Rachel Aviv's profile of Oliver Sacks is deeply sad but exceptionally good https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost

#essay #OliverSacks #books #RachelAviv #bookstodon #neurology

https://authorspublish.com/how-to-make-your-creative-nonfiction-more-cohesive/

#writing #nonfiction #editing #essay #writer

Heute kam mit der Post die neueste Ausgabe der Zeitschrift "Fluch't'raum", in der mein Essay "Bin ich schuld am Erstarken der Rechtsradikalen?" und meine Kurzgeschichte "Dies ist keine Pfeife" erschienen sind. Eine tolle Überraschung kurz vor Weihnachten! 😀

https://fluchtraum.eu/2025/11/30/fluchtraum-18/

#literatur #prosa #essay #birgitrabisch #schreiben #lesen #autor_innenleben

Der Essay „Moral, Macht, Kontrolle – Wokeness als Projektionsfläche - über die Ambivalenz von Woke und Antiwoke im Licht von Dave Eggers’ „The Circle“ wurde vom Literaturmagazin schreibkraft zur Veröffentlichung angenommen 🎉

📅 Erscheinungstermin: 1. Halbjahr 2026
🔗 https://www.johann-seidl.de/wokeantiwoke

Ein Text über Sorge und Kontrolle, Transparenz und Macht – und darüber, wie schnell Begriffe zu Feindbildern werden.

#Essay #Literatur #TheCircle #Wokeness #Antiwoke #Gesellschaft #Kritik #Schreibkraft

Fiona Fúlar’s done terrible things, but she might be the best hope the Libertines have.
https://indubitablyodin.medium.com/guilt-and-secrets-65cbe5b7dc99?postPublishedType=initial

#TTRPG #TableTop #RPG #DnD #Pathfinder #TableTopRPG #RolePlayingGames #IndieDeveloper#Writing #WritingCommunity #Words #Essay #Ideas #Writers #WritersCommunity #Writer #Author

The thing about kids is, I don’t really care for them. They’re fine one-on-one, and I’m quite fond of all my grandchildren, but when you get several of them together, they lose their minds and become little more than feral banshees. They like to repeat sounds and words, over and over, like psychotic Buddhist monks on a meth-infused bender. It’s exhausting and pushes my addled brain to the limits of human composure.

#Christmas #Essay #Writing #Grinch

https://medium.com/ellemeno/maybe-the-grinch-wasnt-all-that-wrong-244b237cec3a

I have some problems about the contemporary push to adopt passkeys everywhere. They're perhaps only half-baked, but I wrote them up anyway.

I never thought I'd become a technical conservative, but I guess spending the best part of a decade as a reliability engineer has taught me to see opportunities for stuff to break.

https://www.arcanalabs.ca/essays/tech/2025/12/16/passkey-problems.html

#blog #essay #security

“poetry after barbarism”, by jennifer scappettone

“In Poetry After Barbarism, Jennifer Scappettone argues for nomadic, miscegenated, ‘xenoglossic’ poetries as fierce forms of linguistic and political resistance. Prodigiously researched cross-cultural readings celebrate a stellar constellation of consequential poets: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Emilio Villa, Amelia Rosselli, Etel Adnan, and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs.”

— Charles Bernstein, author of The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies

• In this book, Jennifer Scappettone argues that the poetry of motherless tongues is the best form of resistance to the rising tide of nationalism, empire, fascism, and authoritarianism.
• Studying experiments between languages by immigrant, refugee, and otherwise stateless authors—from Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven to Emilio Villa, Amelia Rosselli, Etel Adnan, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Chika Sagawa, and Sawako Nakayasu—this book explores how poetry can both represent and jumpstart metamorphosis of the shape and sound of citizenship; and it
• untethers identity from territory in favor of a translingual proposition—that tumult’s time is now.

Jennifer Scappettone is a professor of literature, creative writing, gender studies, and environmental humanities at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia, 2014) and the cross-genre verse books From Dame Quickly and The Republic of Exit 43. She is also the translator of Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli.

You can find more information about the book at the Columbia University Press website:

Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resistance—the poetry of motherless tongues. Departing from the national and global paradigms that dominate literary history, Jennifer Scappettone traces the aesthetic and geopolitical resonance of “xenoglossic” poetics: poetry composed in the space of contestation between national languages, concretizing dreams of mending the ruptures traced to the story of Babel. As global migration, aerial bombardment, and the wireless telegraph shrank distances with brute force during the twentieth century, visions of transcultural communication emerged in the hopes of bridging linguistic difference. At the same time, evolving Fascist ideologies denied the reality of cultural admixture and the humanity of the stranger.

Authors who write xenoglossic verse occupy languages without a perceived birthright or sanctioned education; they compose in ecstatic “orphan tongues” that rebuff nationalist ideologies, on the one hand, and globalization, on the other, uprooting notions of belonging ensconced in nativist metaphors of milk, blood, and soil while rendering the reactionary category of the barbarian obsolete. Raised within or in the wake of fascism, these poets practice strategic forms of literary and linguistic barbarism, proposing modes of collectivity that exceed geopolitical definitions. Studying experiments between languages by immigrant, refugee, and otherwise stateless authors—from Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven to Emilio Villa, Amelia Rosselli, Etel Adnan, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Chika Sagawa, and Sawako Nakayasu—this book explores how poetry can both represent and jumpstart metamorphosis of the shape and sound of citizenship, modeling paths toward alternative republics in which poetry might assume a central agency.

#againstFascism #alternativeRepublics #AmeliaRosselli #antiFascism #authoritarianism #BaronessElsaVonFreytagLoringhoven #ChikaSagawa #citizenship #ColumbiaUniversityPress #crossGenreVerseBooks #CUP #ElsaVonFreytagLoringhoven #EmilioVilla #essay #EtelAdnan #experimentalPoetry #FromDameQuickly #JenniferScappettone #KillingTheMoonlightModernismInVenice #LaTashaNNevadaDiggs #LocomotrixSelectedPoetryAndProseOfAmeliaRosselli #motherlessTongue #motherlessTongues #poetry #resistance #resistanceToFascism #SawakoNakayasu #TheRepublicOfExit43

Many disagreements don’t persist because people are irrational or uninformed. They persist because the parties involved are not standing on the same conceptual ground.

New essay on ontological incommensurability, moral disagreement, and why convergence is sometimes the wrong expectation.

Disagreement Without Referees
🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/16/essay-disagreement-without-referees/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#Metaethics #Philosophy #Morality #AntiFoundationalism #metaethics #referee #ontology #redcard #disagreement
#blog #podcast #writing #essay

Weniger #Herbst: Mit Thomas #Böhme den kindlichen Blick auf die Welt wiederfinden

https://www.l-iz.de/bildung/buecher/2025/12/weniger-herbst-thomas-bohme-kindlicher-blick-welt-641328
#Rezensionen #Bücher #Essay #Lyrik