HERMENAUTICA (39)
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June 7, 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.
“Hooked on Phonics” — a kind of meta-conspiracy theory by Matt Ehrlich, a college friend of mine. At the time he wrote this, Matt was working for MTV. (During a memorable visit to MTV’s offices in NYC, he astonished me by telling me everything the “VJ” was about to say during a broadcast airing at that moment; he’d written their patter.) Matt is now a very accomplished geriatric and palliative care psychiatrist, and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His students are lucky — he’s a brilliant fellow.
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.