The Fourth Wall
On breaking through the theatrics and living in Expectation.
The time has come for this newsletter to be both re-branded and re-oriented.
Anti-Mimetic started as an outlet for me to share a few thoughts on a lazy Saturday afternoon in late 2020 while Claire and I were visiting upstate New York. I stole some time away at an old desk in our AirBNB to try to figure out how to use this thing called Substack, which I had mimetically-adopted as a platform because I had been enjoying a few newsletters on it. I named my publication after one of the chapters in my (then) upcoming book.
Initially I thought I’d be publishing ideas related to mimetic theory—the ones that didn’t make it into Wanting due to space constraints—and that I’d use the newsletter to go deeper into some of its core ideas. I still plan to do all of that here, and Anti-Mimetic is going to continue to be one of this newsletter’s major themes; h…