HERMENAUTICA (36)
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May 6, 2025
One in a series of posts featuring pages from Hermenaut, a DIY intellectual zine/journal published by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn from 1992 through 2000-01.
The “paranoiac-critical method” is a surrealist technique developed by Salvador Dalí in the early 1930s. He employed it in the production of paintings and other artworks. The aspect of paranoia in which Dalí was interested in was the capacity of the brain to perceive links between things which rationally are not linked. I’ve always been quite good at connecting unconnectable dots, so Hermenaut #8 was dedicated to tongue-in-cheek paranoid theorizing. Thanks to QAnon and Trump, though, the transgressive thrill has gone out of this sort of thing, for me.
Pub. Date: 1994
Theme: Conspiracies
Hermenaut: Walt Whitman
Pages: 46
Print Run: 1,000
MORE HERMENAUT on HILOBROW: HERMENAUTICA series | MEET THE HERMENAUTS | HERMENAUT’s last five issues | Snapshots | Letters to HERMENAUT | Dialectical Design | Josh Glenn on CAMP, KITSCH & CHEESE | Josh Glenn on DANIEL CLOWES: Q&A | Clarke Cooper on APOCALYPSE ALREADY | Lisa Carver on THE ART OF BEING UNCOMFORTABLE | Josh Glenn on FAKE AUTHENTICITY | Chris Fujiwara on ZOOMING THROUGH SPACE | John Marr on CAMPANILE FREE-FALL | Clarke Cooper on THE WILL TO SCORN | Dan Reines on PURE EVEL | Chris Fujiwara on ROADWORTHY JAZZ | Dan Reines on LETTER FROM LA | Mary E. Ladd & Julie Wiskirchen on ONWARD CHRISTIAN TOURISTS | Chris Fujiwara on SAVED BY BETRAYAL | Margaret Blonder on MEMORIES OF THE BIOSPHERE | Josh Glenn on HERMENAUT: PHILIP K. DICK | Ingrid Schorr on ROCKVILLE GIRL SPEAKS.