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Founding Editor
Justin Smith-Ruiu

Managing Editors
Hélène Le Goff
Olivia Ward-Jackson

Associate Editors
Jonah Dunch
Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert
Cal Revely-Calder

Poetry Editor
Sam Jennings

Contributing Editors
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Mary Cadwalladr
Kenny Koontz
Sam Kriss
Cisco T. Laertes
Eigil zu Tage-Ravn

Communications Director / Podcast Producer
David Lamb

Hinternet Production Laboratories
David Lamb
Justin Smith-Ruiu

Eternal Editors
Thomas Browne
Robert Burton
Ralph Cudworth
Mary MacLane
Pliny the Elder
Samuel Constantin de Rafinesque
Isidore of Seville
St. Teresa of Ávila
Izaak Walton

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The Hinternet is a hybrid monster. It is, in the first instance, a Substack-based online revue of technology, arts, culture, and politics. In this capacity, the goal of its creators is finally to break the anachronistic stranglehold of “print prestige” and to create writing “fit for the internet” in the best possible sense of that phrase: writing that no longer pretends to belong to a now mostly vanished era of history. The Hinternet is, at the same time, an idiosyncratic and sometimes inscrutable art project. It uses metafiction, pseudonymy, and other experimental techniques to engage, again, with technology, the arts, culture, and politics in new and surprising ways. The entire project may justly be seen as an unconventional work of fiction

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“Justin Smith-Ruiu has written himself into the stratosphere.” —Kevin La Torre, “The 6,069 Fictions of Justin Smith-Ruiu”

“The Hinternet is one of the few intellectual endeavors that seems fully and constantly alive to the seismic epistemological implications of the present: the internet, the end of the postwar international (and institutional) framework... The point... is to open up new ways of engaging with the intellectual tradition, new ways of making it live and matter. It’s Machiavelli putting on his toga and cosplaying as a Roman to read Livy, Donne publishing joke Latin library catalogues, Bruno doing basically anything. Very curious to watch where this will go.” —Julianne Werlin, Life and Letters

“The Internet left a hole in our culture the size of the Yucatán crater. The Hinternet is filling it back in, with matter as hot and dense as the core of a neutron star.” —Hélène Le Goff, Managing Editor, The Hinternet

“Just a deep and lovely read.” —Nick Cave

“Delightful.” —Galen Strawson

“I really love the newsletter.” —Ezra Klein

“My subscription to your Substack has proved one of the most enjoyable and enchanting adventures to have befallen me lately.” —Stephen Fry

“I think you are cracking something open… that the entire culture is bashing its head against right now trying to solve. Thank you for this and please keep going.” —Kristen Roupenian