Wow. Great post ... great as in droll, disturbing, and poignant all at once. I remembering reading your piece from Salon ages ago but rereading it (https://www.salon.com/2003/10/21/genome_5/) in the light of what the Trump administration is doing brings home the horrific, inhumane reality of their plans. And Obeidallah's article is a must read. If you can finish it without feeling sad, angry, and disgusted simultaneously, you must have a heart of stone. You and Obeidallah illustrate that for the Trumpists, there's nothing they're not willing to do to institute their new order.
Great article, I really like how you concatenate apparently unrelated things just to deliver such insight about the precarious situation in which we find ourselves.
In something unrelated, how does it work to buy the magazine from the Buy me a Coffee website?
They want to charge me without knowing where to send the magazine, you suggest to buy direct from the publisher if one is out of the USA but they don't deliver to sunny Spain for some reason.
First, thank you for your appreciative comment. Not everybody is a fan of my squirrel-brain disjunctions & concatenations, but borrowing a phrase I've seen attributed to Abraham Lincoln, when he was backed into giving a book review for a book that didn't exactly snap his socks, "People who like this sort of thing will find that this is the sort of thing they like."
In any event, like Popeye, I yam what I yam, and this is my preferred style of essay-writing. I'm always delighted to find readers who appreciate it.
If you purchase In Formation through Buy me Coffee (which I prefer, since I make $$ if you purchase from me (until my supply runs out), and $0 if you buy from the magazine's website), you can enter your address as a comment. That's what everybody who has purchased the magazine from me so far has done. If you use Buy Me Coffee, in other words, the $$ goes directly to me & I mail you a copy of the magazine myself.
But if that doesn't work for any reason you can just email me jsundman +US at the google email addy. I will be happy to mail you a copy of In Formation #3 for $20 plus the international postage. Which, since I've already mailed two copies to Spain, I know to be in the neighborhood of $25. I wish it weren't so, so we're talking $55 or so, which is pretty damn steep, but, if you can afford it, absolutely worth it, in my opinion. If issue #3 does well (and it appears to be taking off, with USA-wide distribution in the works) then, who knows, In Formation may become an ongoing concern, and even, *don't jinx it* *knock wood* a magazine with international distribution. But that's all conjectural for now.
"I’m now offering ‘merch’ at my ‘Buy me a coffee’ page. The first item on offer: In Formation #3."
EVERYONE: GO BUY YOURSELF THIS MAGAZINE
It is currently altering my reality, improving my understanding and enriching my life in ways I am sure will multiply on further reflection. Sundman's essay is excellent, and it is in good company. I know you all are already fans of Sundman, or at least his writing, or you wouldn't be here. Now get back to the link, and get your own copy of In Formation #3.
Wow. Great post ... great as in droll, disturbing, and poignant all at once. I remembering reading your piece from Salon ages ago but rereading it (https://www.salon.com/2003/10/21/genome_5/) in the light of what the Trump administration is doing brings home the horrific, inhumane reality of their plans. And Obeidallah's article is a must read. If you can finish it without feeling sad, angry, and disgusted simultaneously, you must have a heart of stone. You and Obeidallah illustrate that for the Trumpists, there's nothing they're not willing to do to institute their new order.
Thanks, Mark. And that's for your "AI of the beholder" essay that got my started on this one.
Great article, I really like how you concatenate apparently unrelated things just to deliver such insight about the precarious situation in which we find ourselves.
In something unrelated, how does it work to buy the magazine from the Buy me a Coffee website?
They want to charge me without knowing where to send the magazine, you suggest to buy direct from the publisher if one is out of the USA but they don't deliver to sunny Spain for some reason.
First, thank you for your appreciative comment. Not everybody is a fan of my squirrel-brain disjunctions & concatenations, but borrowing a phrase I've seen attributed to Abraham Lincoln, when he was backed into giving a book review for a book that didn't exactly snap his socks, "People who like this sort of thing will find that this is the sort of thing they like."
In any event, like Popeye, I yam what I yam, and this is my preferred style of essay-writing. I'm always delighted to find readers who appreciate it.
If you purchase In Formation through Buy me Coffee (which I prefer, since I make $$ if you purchase from me (until my supply runs out), and $0 if you buy from the magazine's website), you can enter your address as a comment. That's what everybody who has purchased the magazine from me so far has done. If you use Buy Me Coffee, in other words, the $$ goes directly to me & I mail you a copy of the magazine myself.
But if that doesn't work for any reason you can just email me jsundman +US at the google email addy. I will be happy to mail you a copy of In Formation #3 for $20 plus the international postage. Which, since I've already mailed two copies to Spain, I know to be in the neighborhood of $25. I wish it weren't so, so we're talking $55 or so, which is pretty damn steep, but, if you can afford it, absolutely worth it, in my opinion. If issue #3 does well (and it appears to be taking off, with USA-wide distribution in the works) then, who knows, In Formation may become an ongoing concern, and even, *don't jinx it* *knock wood* a magazine with international distribution. But that's all conjectural for now.
Another piece of your incredible writing.
And then, almost slipping past me:
"I’m now offering ‘merch’ at my ‘Buy me a coffee’ page. The first item on offer: In Formation #3."
EVERYONE: GO BUY YOURSELF THIS MAGAZINE
It is currently altering my reality, improving my understanding and enriching my life in ways I am sure will multiply on further reflection. Sundman's essay is excellent, and it is in good company. I know you all are already fans of Sundman, or at least his writing, or you wouldn't be here. Now get back to the link, and get your own copy of In Formation #3.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm glad you like In Formation — and I must agree that it's pretty freekin' awesome. Here's my essay about how issue #2 came about after a 25-year hiatus: https://open.substack.com/pub/johnsundman/p/silicon-valley-uber-alles?r=38b5x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false