The aesthetics issue
Postcard #38
Hello and welcome back to another edition of THE POSTCARD, Unregistered’s fortnightly roundup of recommendations.
Thoughts, tools, and treats
This week’s POSTCARD is about sensual perception, beauty, and all things aesthetics.
The artist is always on call
Showering, folding laundry, running errands, waiting, falling asleep: „Every moment carries the potential for insight, connection, or discovery, even the most seemingly ordinary ones,“ Rick Rubin argues in one of his weekly meditations on creative practice.
A call for new aesthetics
What is the aesthetic of the twenty-first century? Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen are seeking to fund artists, architects, and designers who are consciously working to define New Aesthetics. Grant size: $5k – $250k. Deadline: Applications are open until March 31, 2026.
Ten reasons to read great literature
A reading manifesto by Henry Oliver. His preferred reasons are 3 and 4, whereas I’d vote for 2 and 6. How about you?
Serializing novels online
lettrss.com is a website that syndicates public-domain books via RSS; in other words, it serializes novels by publishing them in an RSS feed on a schedule. Find some historical background and contemporary ideas on the serialisation of literature in this post by Leon Paternoster.
A notebook unlike any other
I was given an unusually beautiful present, the iA Notebook for Writers. Believe me, I own many notebooks, but none are as well-thought-out, as carefully made, or as lovely as this one.
Noteworthy
“Ultimately, the product has to deliver, and it should be enjoyable to have diverse items in the glass that provide the same delight. Then it doesn’t matter. The world of wine is so diverse that there are always a thousand options you can drink. And sure, you could be so narrow-minded that you only drink Champagne, Pinot from Burgundy, and Riesling from the Pfalz. But that would be way too boring.”
—Steffen Christmann, winemaker
A mystery link leading into the unknown
Reasons To be Cheerful...
As always,
Dirk
P.S.: Feel free to send me pointers to articles, books, sites, pods, tools, and treats that could be interesting for this roundup. While I cannot promise to link them, I read and appreciate every hint.