"-and the goal of this wasn't to erect a digital monument of myself; quite the opposite really. I wanted to have a space far away from the hubbub of Twitter slash Tumblr where I'm in control. That means people also only ever get to see what I want them to see."
- presented by The Editors
"I blog from here"
The Webmaster of this site is a "regular guy" in his 20s, who spends most of his days out and about in the real world and retreats into his digital world at night. He has been browsing the web since teenhood and wrote his first snippets of code sometime around 2018. Since then it's become quite the hobby.
Hermenaut.net is part blog, part archive, possibly an independent publishing platform, but mostly just for fun. It's the Webmaster's nth attempt at creating an all-in-one website that can cater to all his creative and contemplative needs. He plans to cover a variety of topics, therefore the site will be a perpetual Work in Progress. We hope he manages to finish it one day...
The Webmaster has declined to answer further questions, but according to sources and rumors he is currently studying biology in a monastery and speaks 3.5 languages (he plans to learn many more). He enjoys concrete, the smell of citrus, rainy sundays, taking the train, old machines and abhors floral scents.
Lastly, We have received the following from his collection:
John Doe. (...) Do I have to say? I mean, it's not like what you guys are doing isn't already kinda strange; no offense. I guess it's just, I don't know, I like letting myself talk but at the same time I don't like talking about myself. You know what I mean. I want to keep the Myself out of it while keeping actual Self in it. Names give power to that-the idea of the Myself, you know. It's my name people will end up associating with this place, rather than remembering the site by its own merits. Like the site's own self or something. Point is, my name is irrelevant here.
[OK, DIFFERENT QUESTION THEN. NAME OF SITE?]Hermenaut. It's an amalgam of my own invention; hermeneutics plus the Ancient Greek "-nautes", meaning "sailor". I took the latter part from the "-naut" words, y'know- astronaut, aeronaut, cosmonaut, so on. By that logic, a hermenaut would be someone that sails along (...) understanding? Interpretation, maybe semiotics, something like that. I just thought it sounded cool.
[DO YOU KNOW WHY WE CHOSE YOU?]Um (laughs) no, not really. I mean, what's the goal here again, if I may ask?
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