A brief explanation.
Or its opposite.
The Hippo is an often-satirical magazine exploring the ever-increasing waves of modernity through humor, paradox and oddity. Every once in a while we'll 'get serious'.
Our praxis puts the novel beside the essay, anthropology beside criticism, and a perfectly reasonable observation beside something that may take several readings to become less clear.
Purposefully obtuse, too vague or overly detailed, the idea of this magazine is to saturate our readership with content - academia for academia’s sake as we like to say here at the Hippo.
Difficulty can be a pleasure, not an entrance requirement. Bring your curiosity; no theoretical credentials are necessary. We want to publish writing, find readers and encourage new and younger writers to join the conversation.
Suggestions welcome... but may also be ignored
This is a Work in Progress
The reading matter
Hippo-Launch
Foreword from the editor Professor Michael Armadillo To the reader, the writer and those in the Hippo-commune It is no secret that we live in the age of the individual, this is a magazine aimed at the masses via individualistic means. What better format is there, than to thrash it out online, with a small…
The reader may now interrupt.
Have a question, an objection or the beginnings of a piece? We would like to hear from you. New and younger writers are welcome; a fully formed literary persona is optional.