HERMENAUTICA (37)
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May 8, 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.
I was a big fan of the indie record label Sub Pop. (Founded in 1986, it was originally a fanzine.) The first Sub Pop LP, a compilation, had come out the summer after I graduated high school; its offerings — Sonic Youth’s “Kill Yr Idols,” Shonen Knife’s “One Day of the Factory,” Wipers’ “Nothin’ to Prove,” etc. — had been a crucial part of the soundtrack to my first months at college. It was a thrill to receive fan mail, in 1994, from Sub Pop’s GM Rich Jensen, whose efforts had led to the success of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, etc.
Note the ironic-yet-serious way that we (I use “we” advisedly) communicated in those days. It was a whole thing.
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.