What a great idea Luiza! I agree that smaller, lesser (or mostly unknown) creators need visibility too. And Thank You so much for the shout out; it is so appreciated. I enjoy sharing my love of books and reading with others. :)
So honored to be included among these great articles - and thank you for curating such a wonderful list! With all the goodness flooding Substack, it’s so helpful to have a tour guide to the best and most interesting spots 😍
How can I submit myself for consideration by this newsletter? I treat my writing as a craft -- I don't write newsletters, but rather use SubStack as a place to post careful essays that are the products of months of work. I spend most of the time between essays drafting ideas on my typewriter and doing in-depth research. Since I publish so rarely and carefully, my only way of attracting an audience is by humans telling each other about my work. I don't appear in subscribers' inboxes frequently, and I trust that people who like what they read will go back into my catalog to read more, rather than waiting for the next installment.
My overall project is to argue that oil is sentient and has become the protagonist of history - I'm trying to reframe how we think of climate change and place it in a historical context by looking at the materials that cause climate change. I'm trying to get people to look at oil, coal, and gas as strange xenomorphs rather than a part of what it means to be a human being. I'm trying to extend the project of Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia into our culture and our understanding of history. I consider the political, cultural, and economic impacts of petrochemicals like plastic and synthetic fertilizer, along with the petropolitics of the energy markets themselves. In essence, I'm writing a book on these topics in public, in a nonsequential serialization.
#2 - Optimism, spring books, how educators are struggling and the good side of self-doubt
What a great idea Luiza! I agree that smaller, lesser (or mostly unknown) creators need visibility too. And Thank You so much for the shout out; it is so appreciated. I enjoy sharing my love of books and reading with others. :)
Thank you so much for your recommendation! 🙏💜
So honored to be included among these great articles - and thank you for curating such a wonderful list! With all the goodness flooding Substack, it’s so helpful to have a tour guide to the best and most interesting spots 😍
Wow, thank you for the feature! Really appreciate that, glad to hear that our writing resonated with folks 🥰
How can I submit myself for consideration by this newsletter? I treat my writing as a craft -- I don't write newsletters, but rather use SubStack as a place to post careful essays that are the products of months of work. I spend most of the time between essays drafting ideas on my typewriter and doing in-depth research. Since I publish so rarely and carefully, my only way of attracting an audience is by humans telling each other about my work. I don't appear in subscribers' inboxes frequently, and I trust that people who like what they read will go back into my catalog to read more, rather than waiting for the next installment.
My overall project is to argue that oil is sentient and has become the protagonist of history - I'm trying to reframe how we think of climate change and place it in a historical context by looking at the materials that cause climate change. I'm trying to get people to look at oil, coal, and gas as strange xenomorphs rather than a part of what it means to be a human being. I'm trying to extend the project of Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia into our culture and our understanding of history. I consider the political, cultural, and economic impacts of petrochemicals like plastic and synthetic fertilizer, along with the petropolitics of the energy markets themselves. In essence, I'm writing a book on these topics in public, in a nonsequential serialization.
Yay for So Novelicious! There area always great recommendations in there.