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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/dis-content-learning-write-age-digital/"></div><p>Anyone attempting to make a living for him- or herself through the written word in the modern digital day will be all-too familiar with the ubiquitous term “content.” The daily, desperate perusal of job listings is streamlined by the fact that nearly all roles related whatsoever to writing, editing, or proofreading now contain this ever-present buzzword. Content writer, content editor, content producer, content manager. Content strategist even, content creator, content developer, content marketing executive, content communicator, content buyer. Junior content delivery operative. Head of content. “Content,” in the marketing sense, is not by any stretch a brand-new concept, but it is one that has gained an uncommonly tenacious purchase in our modern or postmodern times. Content of this ilk exists to bridge the ever-increasing gap between print and screen cultures, as a one-size-fits-all category for both the old world of writing and the new paradigm of images. Content is a solution to the brave new world of the digital. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/dis-content-learning-write-age-digital/#more-4079" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Dis-Content: Learning to Write in the Age of the Digital

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/nietzsches-horse/"></div><p>On January 3, 1889, in the throes of a manic episode, Friedrich Nietzsche left his lodgings in Turin, walked a short distance across a nearby square, and then halted. Seeing a horse being flogged by its owner, he threw himself towards the animal and embraced it. Breaking into tears, he slumped to the floor. He was almost arrested for disturbing the peace, but was rescued by his landlord and was taken back home and to bed. The remaining 11 years of his life were spent under care, and under the spell of profound madness. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/nietzsches-horse/#more-3890" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Nietzsche’s Horse

No One’s Ways

<strong>Chris Townsend is a freelance essay writer, currently living in Berlin. He holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, and his academic interests lie in British Romantic poetry. He is online editor for <em>King’s Review</em> magazine. You can find him on Twitter @marmeladrome.</strong>

Chris Townsend

I Speak Therefore I Am: On Daniel Heller-Roazen’s “No One’s Ways”

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Chris Townsend is a freelance essay writer, currently living in Berlin. He holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, and his academic interests lie in British Romantic poetry. He is online editor for <em>King’s Review</em> magazine. You can find him on Twitter @marmeladrome.