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The Summer 2024 Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree

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I am proud to announce the Experimental History Summer 2024 Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree. Submit your post now! As a genre, blogging is under-appreciated and under-theorized. Most culture is produced by committee. Books, movies, music, video games, op-eds, scientific papers, etc. all have to pass through a gauntlet of editors, producers, reviewers, lawyers, and algorithms before they’re allowed to reach your eyeballs. Committees cost money, so they have to produce things that please enough people to turn a big profit, or else the committee will starve. And so they try to reduce variance, risk, and weirdness, and in raising the floor, they also lower the ceiling. The culture they produce is unlikely to offend or repulse, but it’s also unlikely to challenge or enchant. It’s usually fine and rarely sublime. (This is why most of popular culture is reruns, repeats, sequels, and spinoffs.) And that’s all right. It’s fun to numb your brain every once in a while by watc

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