Back to the essence

why I take up real blogging again

hello dear followers on Substack,

These are probably the last words I will write here on Substack. For a couple of years, I have struggled to find the right platform for my writing besides my journalistic work for Gonzo (circus). First, I started a blog on Medium next to FRNKFRT, the magazine I ran with Peter Bruyn. Then, I moved to Ghost.io. I don’t mind paying to use an independent platform built upon the open-source community. I loved it, but there were too many technical limitations, and using Ghost is expensive. So, I exchanged Ghost for Substack.

Substack is cheaper, has more features, and fosters a community of writers like Medium. Still, I find it hard to develop a weekly or bi-weekly format. I miss writing when I want and what I want. Small posts, larger essays, reviews, remarks, curated stuff, you name it.

While researching contemporary internet culture, I learned that more creative people are leaving social media platforms and even returning to blogging on their own websites. That got me excited. I returned to my old STASIS blog on my Studio Hyperspace website and felt the urge to start blogging there again.

After a good night’s sleep, I decided it was time to return to my roots. The death of big media platforms has been predicted for some time, and I strongly believe in what is currently referred to as the ‘indie web’.

From now on, I will write about pop culture on stasis.studiohyperspace.net irregularly.

My writing about design and more theoretical stuff (speculative accelerationism) can be found on sx.studiohyperspace.net.

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Thank you for being here with me. It means a lot to me. Although it sometimes feels as if I write about the things I love and find interesting to the thoughts out of my head, it feels reassuring that others are interested in these writings. I also miss the interaction that was so common on the internet in the 1990s and the first decade of this century.

I hope we can build meaningful connections again.

Stay safe.