<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Hinternet: The Future of Reading]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is the 5000-year history of literacy coming to an end?]]></description><link>https://www.the-hinternet.com/s/the-future-of-reading</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!abx1!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F93dcb432-9b5c-4285-b85e-e7c1c7c2c96b_208x208.png</url><title>The Hinternet: The Future of Reading</title><link>https://www.the-hinternet.com/s/the-future-of-reading</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 01:40:18 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.the-hinternet.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Justin Smith-Ruiu]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[hinternet@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[hinternet@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Justin Smith-Ruiu]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Justin Smith-Ruiu]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[hinternet@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[hinternet@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Justin Smith-Ruiu]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Incompossible with Florida]]></title><description><![CDATA[HINTERNET EXCLUSIVE: The Bonfire of the Humanities at New College]]></description><link>https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/incompossible-with-florida</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/incompossible-with-florida</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher P. Noble]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:18:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qwwN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc9c8b8d-cfc4-431f-9bb9-383c0b05de3c_2036x1484.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5><em>The Hinternet</em> is a community of invested readers. We really want <em>you</em> to be a part of it. For this reason, between now and the end of the year we are offering a <em>massive</em> discount on annual paid subscri&#8230;</h5>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Do Soul-Craft with State Tools]]></title><description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve never before done what they call, in the scribal industry, a &#8220;crosspost&#8221; of someone else&#8217;s work.]]></description><link>https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/how-to-do-soul-craft-with-state-tools</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/how-to-do-soul-craft-with-state-tools</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac Mullen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 11:13:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xKbi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6d9239e-1936-44de-b129-df4abbc908c0_2000x2401.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>We&#8217;ve never before done what they call, in the scribal industry, a &#8220;crosspost&#8221; of someone else&#8217;s work. But that&#8217;s because we never loved anyone enough to do that for them&#8230; and that in turn is because&#8230;</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here Come the Allodidacts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deep Reading with Ena Alvarado, Franklin Eccher, Brian Hamilton, Benjamin Laufer, Gabriella Okigbo, and Caroline Young]]></description><link>https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/here-come-the-allodidacts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/here-come-the-allodidacts</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Deresiewicz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 11:36:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Py5u!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F14a9e01e-ab43-44e0-b364-7e96cd9ea199_1179x2556.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>A core component of our activity here at </em>The Hinternet <em>is the exploration of ideas for the preservation and stewardship of the irreducibly human powers of creativity, imagination, and intellectual di&#8230;</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Note on Literacy from Brother Martin XoPo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Continuing what is now our longstanding affirmative-action program for people named Sam (see here, here, and here), we are delighted to feature, in our &#8220;Future of Reading&#8221; series, this very clever piece from Sam Kahn.]]></description><link>https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/a-note-on-literacy-from-brother-martin</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/a-note-on-literacy-from-brother-martin</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Kahn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:01:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fXwv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a249c7c-c418-4dbf-81ba-796795425236_1262x900.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.the-hinternet.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.the-hinternet.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Continuing what is now our longstanding affirmative-action program for people named Sam (see <a href="https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-roaring-of-things-a-guest-essay">here</a>, <a href="https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/polonius-his-muse">here</a>, and <a href="https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/on-bonfire-night">here</a>), we are delighted to feature, in our &#8220;Future of Reading&#8221; series, this very clever piece from Sam Kahn. This Sam, like our other Sams, is a very sharp and prolific writer, whom you have likely already read at his excellent Substack, <em><a href="https://samkahn.substack.com">Castalia</a></em>. But there is another reason we are particularly pleased to have this occasion to praise Sam today, and that is that he, together with Ross Barkan and Lou Bahet, has just launched an exciting new publication called <em><a href="https://metropolitanreview.com">The Metropolitan Review</a></em>, which we fully expect to shake things up in our all-too dull and predictable literary culture. Our own Founding Editor has joined the editorial board, and in the future we expect all sorts of exotic new monsters to grow from the interfertility between that publication and <em>The Hinternet</em>. But let&#8217;s turn things over, without further preludizing, to Sam&#8217;s alter ego from the not-too-distant future, Brother Martin XoPo. &#8212;<em>The Hinternet</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fXwv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a249c7c-c418-4dbf-81ba-796795425236_1262x900.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fXwv!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a249c7c-c418-4dbf-81ba-796795425236_1262x900.png 424w, 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking Back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Capturing the Reading Subject, from the Bible to the Smartphone]]></description><link>https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/looking-back</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/looking-back</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Schmidt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:14:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc17da2b7-2b24-464b-b770-1c019247ba07_2900x1900.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>We are very happy to publish, as the next installment in our ongoing series on &#8220;<a href="https://www.the-hinternet.com/s/the-future-of-reading">The Future of Reading</a>&#8221;, this most lucid examination of some key moments in the history of representations of reading in&#8230;</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Bonfire Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today we are very happy to feature, as the second installment in our ongoing series on &#8220;The Future of Reading&#8221;, this surprising essay from Hinternet Associate Editor Sam Jennings, a London-based Amer&#8230;]]></description><link>https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/on-bonfire-night</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/on-bonfire-night</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Jennings]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:30:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d449990-136e-48f9-91b8-75769d1f5904_1228x1734.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Today we are very happy to feature, as the second installment in our ongoing series on &#8220;The Future of Reading&#8221;, this surprising essay from</em> Hinternet <em>Associate Editor Sam Jennings, a London-based Amer&#8230;</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Notes]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Apocalypse to Dialectic]]></description><link>https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/reading-notes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/reading-notes</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[D. Graham Burnett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 14:41:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hi97!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20c79a26-f3ad-418d-bd9d-7ec75cd09e46_712x632.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Inaugurating our new &#8220;Future of Reading&#8221; series, we are very happy to feature this piece from long-time collaborator and friend of&nbsp;</em>The Hinternet<em>, <a href="https://dgrahamburnett.net">D. Graham Burnett</a>. The particular reading experience &#8230;</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future of Reading]]></title><description><![CDATA[A New Series at The Hinternet]]></description><link>https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-future-of-reading</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-future-of-reading</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Ward-Jackson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:20:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6-pY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e818d34-fccc-4146-8780-38dd49d2e02e_1442x830.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.the-hinternet.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.the-hinternet.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Since its founding in 2020, <em>The Hinternet </em>has not only been a place for reading and writing<em>. </em>It has also been a place for <em>dwelling on</em> reading and writing, a place to ask, and to ask again and again: &#8230;</p>
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