Contact: editor@the-hinternet.com
We are currently accepting submissions. These may be on any topic, and in any genre of non-fiction or fiction, but must in some way reflect the spirit of The Hinternet, while also being entirely sui generis with respect to authorial voice — a difficult and almost paradoxical thing to pull off, admittedly. We strongly recommend that would-be submitters first gain intimate familiarity with the sort of work we do here. Unless otherwise negotiated, we pay $300 US for published submissions. Response time from our editorial team may be slow.
We are also always in search of interesting guests for the “Hinternet Symposion” podcast. If you know something few others do, and know how to talk about it compellingly, drop us a line.
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About our Founding Editor
Justin Smith-Ruiu is a writer based in Paris, formerly known as Justin E. H. Smith.
He is represented by Andrew Stuart of the Stuart Agency.
In 2019-20, he was the John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library.
He is also a professor of philosophy in the department of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité.
He currently has four books under contract. They are, in likely order of appearance:
Olonkho: Translations from the Sakha Oral Epic of Northeastern Siberia, with Liubomira Romanova, World Literatures in Translation Series, University of California Press, 2024.
On Drugs: Philosophy, Psychedelics, and the Nature of Reality, W. W. Norton/Liveright, 2025.
The Philosopher and the Tsar: Leibniz, Russia, and the Making of a Scientific Empire, Princeton University Press, 2025.
A Global History of Philosophy, to 1750, Princeton University Press, someday.
He is also currently writing a fictional translation of the Voynich Manuscript. He is still looking for a publisher — it will have to be one prepared to print some very expensive and ornate illustrations.
His most recent quasi-scholarly book, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, appeared in 2022 from Princeton University Press.
He is co-author, with D. Graham Burnett and Catherine Hansen, of In Search of the Third Bird: Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001-2021, a work of historiographical metafiction, which appeared in 2021 from MIT/Strange Attractor Press.
