For a period, I published on Substack. It served as a useful instrument for organising texts, sharing concepts, and maintaining contact with those who had engaged with my work through that platform. I ceased using it due to editorial considerations.
A decision in favour of something that matters to me increasingly: that my writing, my archive, and my process reside in a place of my own. A space less conditioned by the logic of platforms and closer to the manner in which I understand my work: as a continuous practice between art, thought, technology, memory, and experience.
Consequently, I have returned to writing from my own website, juanesteban.art. As of today, new articles within the Public Notebook section may also be received via email.
This blog will not be an editorial newsletter in the strict sense. It will be a public notebook: a living archive where I shall gather texts, notes, brief essays, reflections, and materials related to my research, my artistic creation, and the manner in which I observe the present.
Those of you receiving this correspondence are here because we encountered one another at some stage via Substack, you have subscribed recently, or we are acquaintances. I wished to compose this initial message to re-establish that connection with clarity.
Henceforth, you shall receive notifications solely when I publish a new entry. Nothing further. You may unsubscribe at any time.
Thank you for remaining there.
Juan A. Esteban