Post Illusion Press

External Publishing

Long-form writing and zines published externally on Substack.

Post Illusion Press is a long-form writing project concerned with meaning after belief in progress, platforms, and institutional narratives has collapsed. These essays are not commentary on the news cycle or arguments for persuasion; they are attempts to preserve clarity, craft, and interior life in a culture optimized for reaction and extraction. The work draws on philosophy, science fiction, cultural criticism, and lived experience to examine what remains when spectacle fails and certainty erodes. Post Illusion Press exists as an archive rather than a feed—written to be read slowly, revisited, and left untouched when necessary.

Volume 14 Building a Body of Work (not a feed)

Volume 13 The Optimized Apocalypse

Volume 13 Frodo Failed — And That’s Why He’s the Most Heroic Character in Literature

Volume 12 You Don’t Own Your Tech: Digital Dependency in the Cloud Era

Volume 11 Some Things Weren't Meant to Scale

Volume 10 Baroness at the 529 Bar

Volume 9 Boris at Haw River Ballroom

Volume 8 Running and Memory

Volume 7 Godspeed! You Black Emporer at Pisgah Brewery

Volume 6 How to Laugh at Pain

Volume 5 Still in the Fight

Volume 4  Leave Science Fiction Alone

Volume 3 How Hustlle Culture Killed Hobbies

Volume 2 The Art of Showing Up

Volume 1 How Algorithms Destroyed What Ritual Once Built