The Essayist's Notebook

This short essay published on The Marshall Review, marks the beginning of a larger project: defining the discipline of publication architecture. It doesn’t explain the method – that comes later – but it sets out the central idea that a publication is an intellectual structure, not a stream of content. The role of the Publication Architect is to design that structure so meaning can accumulate over time.

https://rvw.ie/h1the-publication-architect-brwhy-structure-matters-more-than-content-h1

addendum Part I of this essay introduced the idea that a publication is an architecture rather than a stream of content. I’ve now added Part II, completing the description of the method behind that architecture. Its future home will be essayist.ie, where it will form the method page. Until that site is ready, both parts remain on The Marshall Review.

And now the tension between my two declared roles of Publication Architect and Essayist demands to be explored. I suspect that will follow quickly here on esy.ie