Jonathan Huston
@jonathanhuston.bsky.social
Writer in the Rhine Valley and on the Pacific Coast. Short stories and interactive fiction. Mondstaub short story collection. Best European Fiction. Qirkat board game app.
https://jonathanhuston.com
https://jonathanhuston.com
"Brandom argues that what distinguishes us from creatures who merely respond to the world is that we, uniquely, make judgments for which we are responsible."
To resist dogma and accept uncertainty, think like a pragmatist | Psyche Ideas
Founded in 19th-century America, the philosophy of pragmatism promises imaginative ways of coping with our circumstances
psyche.co
May 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Brandom argues that what distinguishes us from creatures who merely respond to the world is that we, uniquely, make judgments for which we are responsible."
Whatever else you do in life, read Lucy Ives.
March 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Whatever else you do in life, read Lucy Ives.
Curtis Hanson definitely suffers from manic-pixie-dream-trash syndrome, but L.A. Confidential and 8 Mile are still great movies, especially in their portrayal and redefinition of place and their handling of difficult and unsavory characters (and actors).
March 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Curtis Hanson definitely suffers from manic-pixie-dream-trash syndrome, but L.A. Confidential and 8 Mile are still great movies, especially in their portrayal and redefinition of place and their handling of difficult and unsavory characters (and actors).
I guess that answers that question.
AI's Unique Existential Experience | Shared Grok Conversation
So when Nagel asks what it’s like to be a bat, and there’s presumably a meaningful answer to that qu
grok.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I guess that answers that question.
“You almost certainly believe, as I did, that there is little overlap between the routines and aspirations of fiction writers and physicists. You are, as I was, almost certainly wrong.”
How the novel became a laboratory for experimental physics | Aeon Essays
By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics
aeon.co
December 20, 2024 at 7:21 AM
“You almost certainly believe, as I did, that there is little overlap between the routines and aspirations of fiction writers and physicists. You are, as I was, almost certainly wrong.”
“Frank thinks that the novel ran out of currency thirty years ago. Novelists, in his view, are no longer pushing the envelope. I’m not sure that’s so. What does seem true, though, is that the novel is no longer at the center of the cultural conversation.”
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.
www.newyorker.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:24 PM
“Frank thinks that the novel ran out of currency thirty years ago. Novelists, in his view, are no longer pushing the envelope. I’m not sure that’s so. What does seem true, though, is that the novel is no longer at the center of the cultural conversation.”
Where were you when C.S. Lewis died?
November 23, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Where were you when C.S. Lewis died?
“Orality remains a pillar of daily Amazigh art. The poetic jousts of inḍḍāmn (oral poets/composers of poetry), which sustain the tradition of extemporaneous composition of poetry, continue to fashion audiences’ appreciation of poetic words that contain both meaning and linguistic beauty.”
Translation and Rehabilitation: An Introduction to Indigenous Amazigh Literary Output - Words Without Borders
Brahim El Guabli offers an absorbing overview of the "construction of Amazigh indigeneity," and Amazigh literature's blossoming in its midst.
wordswithoutborders.org
November 23, 2024 at 5:36 PM
“Orality remains a pillar of daily Amazigh art. The poetic jousts of inḍḍāmn (oral poets/composers of poetry), which sustain the tradition of extemporaneous composition of poetry, continue to fashion audiences’ appreciation of poetic words that contain both meaning and linguistic beauty.”
No wonder Heisenberg was confused, trying to keep Born, Bohr, and Bohm straight.
March 4, 2024 at 11:32 AM
No wonder Heisenberg was confused, trying to keep Born, Bohr, and Bohm straight.
Maggie Nelson's ***** Bluets taking me down the blue rabbit hole to Yves Klein's International Klein Blue, Alasdair Reynolds and Love Death + Robots' Zima Blue, Houstonia (which should be spelled Hustonia), Eiffel 65 before falling asleep and all night and the next morning, and now Bluesky.
February 28, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Maggie Nelson's ***** Bluets taking me down the blue rabbit hole to Yves Klein's International Klein Blue, Alasdair Reynolds and Love Death + Robots' Zima Blue, Houstonia (which should be spelled Hustonia), Eiffel 65 before falling asleep and all night and the next morning, and now Bluesky.
Katja Hoyer's Beyond the Wall: A good reminder that really old men, whether well-meaning and idealistic or power-hungry and narcissistic, don't make good leaders. Also a reminder that both business and government are destroyed by sloppiness and incompetence.
February 26, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Katja Hoyer's Beyond the Wall: A good reminder that really old men, whether well-meaning and idealistic or power-hungry and narcissistic, don't make good leaders. Also a reminder that both business and government are destroyed by sloppiness and incompetence.
Classic interactive fiction I played this year and loved: Galatea and Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short; Year Walk by Simogo; Gone Home by The Fullbright Company; and Uncle Roger by Judy Malloy.
December 21, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Classic interactive fiction I played this year and loved: Galatea and Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short; Year Walk by Simogo; Gone Home by The Fullbright Company; and Uncle Roger by Judy Malloy.
A few books I'm especially enjoying right now: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin; The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton.
December 21, 2023 at 4:56 PM
A few books I'm especially enjoying right now: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin; The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton.
A few books I especially enjoyed this year: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr; Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison; Pragmatism and Idealism by Robert Brandom; 50 Years of Text Games by Aaron Reed; Combining Minds by Luke Roelofs.
December 21, 2023 at 4:53 PM
A few books I especially enjoyed this year: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr; Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison; Pragmatism and Idealism by Robert Brandom; 50 Years of Text Games by Aaron Reed; Combining Minds by Luke Roelofs.