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Steven Hartman
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Writer, translator, educator, researcher, sustainability policy wonk & human concerned for our common Earthly home.

Proud resister of Fascism in all its guises.

I post in my personal capacity.
Please help share this voice calling out from the desperate situation of hundreds of thousands of civilian Palestinians in #Gaza, our brothers and sisters in #humanity, who are suffering unimaginable privation and loss.

#TheHowlTheWorldDoesNotHear
October 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
And the neologism of the day is 'apocalyptorecrudescence,' whose gist I reckon we can all work out.

#apocalyptorecrudescence
March 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
On the change of direction Jeff Bezos has declared in the Washington Post Editorial Page:

Yeah, that's what we need in the current market of ideas and news opinion, Jeff -- more of those criminally underserved billionaire apologetics.

#WaPo #Bezos #EditorialPage
February 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
From #greenwashing to #greenwarring in 8 years. We cannot wait to decide where we will go from here. Slipping back nostalgically to another age is not an option. The Human Age of environmental impacts is in progress and it is literally fueling accelerated #ClimateChange & a Sixth Mass #Extinction.
February 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
There. Fixed.
February 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The essay in my English translation is accessible via the following url:
bit.ly/42tVVed
January 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
While writing the essay, Dagerman managed to rise temporarily from the depths of his depression and identify the sources of his own consolation and hope in terms that have continued to resonate powerfully with readers over the following 70 years.

#OurNeedForConsolation
January 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable" lays bare the writer’s vulnerable psyche, not only his faltering ego but his fragile ambition to offer something of lasting beauty and meaning to a world indifferent to his very existence.

#Dagerman
January 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Written when his fame as Sweden’s greatest new literary phenom had been firmly established following a remarkable outpouring of critically acclaimed work in the late 1940s, the essay marked a turning point for Dagerman, who now struggled with depression and a debilitating writer's block.

#Stig
January 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
In 1951 Swedish writer Stig Dagerman wrote an autobiographical essay titled "Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable." It is a remarkable poetic meditation on the life-and-death stakes of the literary imagination from a writer possibly suffering from an undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

#StigDagerman
January 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM