Howdy haunts,
So it’s been a week since my new venture, the haunt manual, was launched. I am exceptionally grateful for the nice reception and attaboys. That said, there is a heavy meditation concerning the next installment on “The Hauntology of The Self” I’ve layman-named “Nostalgiamancy.”
I was a guest, the day before the launch, on Alley Wurds’ Last Unrifled Yaw podcast and I came to a very major conclusion – I don’t want to guest on shows to explain this work, or elevator pitch myself, for some time – especially to those hosts that are largely unfamiliar with my work.
I don’t think I can get more thorough than the audiopodcast and substack chapter (with footnotes) and it has occurred to me that this venture is such a fluid and personal experience that not even I have a grasp of where it is going. Thus, releasing them by chapter as the chapters are finished. Nothing against Alley, they were a gracious host, I just feel the podcast fodder of meet and greets isn’t something I’m interested in so much. The Alley podcast won’t be released for months anyhow, and I do dig that it will be a hauntological object of this time right before releasing Haunt Manual!
What I am fervently tackling are the personal tethers that have created this anarchic and artistic life I have culled, the whims and follies, the mucky mires, all the goofjuice as to why I am what I am and what I possibly can become.
That said, the next installment is extremely personal with some practices into why I need to give reference to the poor and gritty decisions of the past, not to change them, but to believe them.
Between all this inner work I am also stretched thin in the hot forest! I want to do something for patreon, but it has come to my attention that our patreon streams concern so many personal revelations from us Haunts that perhaps changing it to a live, weekly, not recorded voice chat in the WtH Discord. Unfortunately, this will mean that those unable to join/listen will miss them. So perhaps there is a way to do both.
Hope you are well, and thank you to dear JJ and Dasya for joining! Please let me know a format you prefer for these weekly be-ins!
Around 2pm PDT today I will be in the Discord Voicechat for a shalom and see how that rolls!
Haunt on,
Keats
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