In the whirling, incomprehensible storm of short form content in video format, the tongue-in-cheek called “hermeneutic herald” – pompous soundbite of a bygone world – wants to “pivot to text”. We believe it’s more important than ever to take the time to write and read long form text in the world of LLM-powered plagiarism machines and in a society which fetishizes the image. Even when text does exist, it is almost certainly a clickbait-y summation and absurd reduction. Our efforts strive to create a corner of the internet where we commit to that most fundamental tenet of critical theory: things can be better.
We employ a neutral visual design meant to let us focus on the text. Sometimes we might highlight a particular turn of phrase or sentence we’re particularly excited about. We are firmly against the use of any AI tools, especially in writing. Our words – irregardless how clumsy, forced, pedantic, inadequate – are perhaps our deepest expression of our lived experience. They are our own, always.
We are open to exploring a variety of topics, but mostly focus on book reviews and essays.
”The Hermeneutic Herald” is first and foremost a passion project. We will never try to sell you anything and we will never run ads on this website. Nor will we place anything we write behind any sort of paywall. We are sick and tired of the precepts of the gig economy, of the incessant idea that every single aspect of our being and existence has to be monetized. We think you might be too.
We are trying to explore ideas freely and understand that this sort of exercise might offend various sensibilities in a global village so diverse. We never intend any sort of hurt or harm. However, nor will we promote extremism or intentional falsehood in a misunderstood fervor of “free speech”, the way some political groups are already doing.
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