The 56th Lecture on Everything. An event in partnership with The Bookshop, Bridport
We are delighted to welcome Jonathan Simons, founding editor of offline publishing house Analog Sea, on his Europe-wide tour of independent bookshops to celebrate the publication of the fourth edition of The Analog Sea Review. Please find a review of it here: Digital Utopianism or Pixelated Madness? By Horatio Morpurgo » Reviews – Marshwood Vale Magazine
Jonathan will read from the 4th edition of Analogue Sea and discuss offline culture and publishing in the digital age.
Analog Sea was founded in 2018 as a resolutely offline press, based on the conviction that books should be traded between human beings rather than via robots and algorithms. The publisher’s award-winning literary journal, The Analog Sea Review, an annual anthology of carefully curated new and old writing with colour artwork, is available exclusively through physical independent bookshops.
In his “Offline Manifesto,” published in the third issue of The Analog Sea Review, Jonathan describes Analog Sea’s activities as “a search-and-rescue mission for a special kind of individual, endangered yet essential should we wish to preserve truth and beauty through another dark age. […] Eliminate the dreamers and we fall too easily for fascism and war. How desperately we need the strength to dream and the artists and thinkers to show us how.”
As a poet and essayist, Jonathan has written for publications including The London Magazine, PN Review, El País, subTerrain Magazine, and The Analog Sea Review. Jonathan researched Buddhist poetics at Naropa University and McGill University and was formerly a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Humans and Machines, in Berlin.
Turn your phones off, or better yet, leave them at home, and join us for a special evening of inspiring readings and thought-provoking discussion about how to nurture contemplation, culture, and community in our technology- saturated world.
Jonathan Simons, founding editor of offline publishing house Analog Sea, in conversation with writer Horatio Morpurgo.
Friday, 14 April 2023, 8PM, £10
The Chapel in the Garden
49 East Street Bridport DT6 3JX (Rax Lane entrance)
Contact: 07833 79 56 29