The New Year

Every time I mention starting a blog, I’m met with a cocked eyebrow and an insinuatory, “You’re starting a blog?” I can understand why blogs are met with such skepticism. It’s the same reason why I used to roll my eyes when someone said they had a LiveJournal or listened to Linkin Park. It’s a bandwagon thing, and unless you were on the bandwagon before it became a bandwagon,... Read More

About the name…

“The Hypermodern” refers dually to the style of chess play which David Shenk, in his book The Immortal Game, describes as “a paradigm-shattering gift to chess… The lesson of the Hypermodern revolution was that anything was still possible… Hypermodernism was not about fear, but about the love of intellectual adventure. It was, in fact, archetypal modernism–the... Read More

Welcome to The Hypermodern

The launch date for this blog is January 1st, 2008. I know, kitschy right? If you’re here before then you were probably referred by me in a desperate attempt to assemble content for said launch date. If this is the case, please register an account by clicking the “Register” link to the right and filling in some shit.  Read More