Entities or writers that explore the delivery of language. Much of the concept was birthed through influences such as Inside the Castle, HOOT Review, Meow Meow Pow Pow, Joe Milutis, Russell Jaffe and Amaranth Borsuk. We focus on digital ephemera and unconventional literary objects. What are your influences, your aesthetic, your mission? Tell us a bit about Really Serious Literature. So, once my collection expired, I opted to continue with the project by soliciting fellow writers I was either friends with or greatly admired from a distance and, since then, have posted almost 100 Disappearing Chapbooks. I also received a fair amount of positive feedback. But the traffic was there (it’s built into the app, essentially) and with the right amount of engagement and hashtag usage, the experiment proved somewhat of a success. Once I tried this with “PXZA MNTN” I garnered more attention on that post in comparison to previous posts regarding publishing acceptances, etc… I was annoying about it, yeah. I wanted to find an approach that would encourage writers to promote their work while also creating an urgency for the reader. I can check it out whenever.” And in many cases, never do. Having been an events curator for several years and a writer myself, I presumed the initial struggle to overcome is that writers generally suck at promoting themselves, and readers often think “well, it’s online. I’d scroll through to issues posted months or a year or so prior and was astonished to see very little continuous or current traffic.

A “set it and forget it” type of approach. To gain traffic to the page, I reviewed the promotional strategies of a number of online journals and saw a similar trend many of the publishers and poets hardly ever shared the links more than once. Naturally, as most small presses start, I experimented with my own work to measure sustainability by posting “PXZA MNTN”, a short hybrid collection of deconstructed concrete poetry and prose. I began tinkering around and noticed posts had a cap of ten slides each, which is like a mini-chapbook. My partner at the time was an Instagram influencer and we experienced some pretty stellar rewards from that venture and I began to wonder how the literary arts or personal endeavors could benefit and thrive in that format, if at all. Consider also the origin of life itself.Started in late August of last year. if they are done well and not poorly), contribute to our well being. This is why stones can self-organize in circles, birds can self-organize in flocks, and people can self-organize in economic and social structures that can, at least in some cases (i.e. Such spontaneous “self-organization” happens in multiple ways, animate and inanimate. Also, what appears to be violation of the second law, disorder going to order, is possible. That kind of disorder is not counted by entropy. It is true that an increase in order at large scales is related to a decrease in entropy, but relating these to good and bad is unclear.įor example: The idea that a messy desk is a higher entropy state than an ordered one is wrong. To the extent there is a connection between the two it is not part of the second law, but part of a more general understanding of the space of possibilities: Order, disorder, information, construction, selection, destruction and degeneration. The nature of things falling apart and coming together is described by multiscale concepts and not by the 2nd law. The earth is not a closed system: We are in sunlight with emission of heat to space, and therefore the earth and human affairs are not described by the 2nd Law. However, macroscopic behaviors in non-equilibrium systems are not described by the 2nd law. Steven Pinker has recently written a brief piece on the importance of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics in interpretation of misfortune and fortune in human affairs A short comment by Yaneer Bar-Yam president of the New England Complex Systems Institute

Intrigue and entropy