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Is essay-writing still alive outside of academia? (In the sense that poetry is dead, despite still being practiced.)

Any high quality essay compilations in popular publication, i.e. not obscure $60 academic resources? Any particular contemporary essayists you'd recommend -- including Moldbug and Nick Land types?

Any /lit/heads trying their own hands at this kind of independent essay-writing?

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>>11656255
Some non-academic journals still have essays (Paris Review comes to mind). And then there are various topical/politifcal journals that are all/mostly essays (Foreign Affairs, American Affairs, etc).

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X and Y: Z and Identity in A and B

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Is this real? It's an unfamiliar comic, but it's totally something I could imagine Watterson drawing.

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>>11657330
It's for real. Waterson was great.

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>>11657347
(And also prescient)

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>>11657089
This is discouraging. Are my recent attempts at independent essaywriting masturbatory? Mainly interested in topics in the experiential genre, e.g. psychology, phenomenology, aesthetics, epistemology, religion. Should I just be writing a book instead?

Alternatively, should I Moldbug it and create a pseudonymous online identity as an attention seeking tactic?

Or I could just kill myself.

>> No.11657386

>>11657374
Well, I'm assuming you're trying to avoid academic/university journals, which is a bit tough if you don't have a specific niche you're writing in. That said, there are easily dozens of decent enough academic/university journals (and hundreds at tiers below that) that are open enough to more experimental essays that don't fit into any particular area.

>> No.11657410

>>11657386
Do such journals actually accept pieces from people without PhD's?

>> No.11657416

>>11657410
Many do (though it's of course easier if you've got a doctorate, or have been published elsewhere, and/or know somebody on the journal's staff).

>> No.11657423

Essays are alive and well on youtube. The video essay has become very popular, despite most of them being more video editors than essayists, and despite their subject matter being rather trite, and despite them all doing the same fake emotional inflections when reading and recording with terrible accents and noises squirting out of their mouth because they can't fucking control themselves sperging.


Anyway, theyre fun to watch at x2 speed while doing the dishes or driving.

>> No.11657458

>>11657423
You are reminding me of public speaking/demagogy/intellectualism as a general movement. People are very willing to listen to long audio clips on interesting topics -- essentially video essays, as you say.