Interview | Jonathan Simons on Analog Sea, Neo-Romanticism and 'The Contemplative Gap' - The London Magazine

Did you jump on the social media bandwagon when it was taking off?

No, I’m not on social media. But I was quite a technologist back in the day. I definitely had my utopian ideas of what the internet could do for music. Along with everyone else, I was really excited about that. And I had the first iPhone. The confession that I love to make — I was o... See more

People can only reach us through the post, and we’ve gotten thousands of printed letters from people, who express a lot of appreciation for us, simply saying that things of value must exist offline.

If the prevailing sentiment is that everything should be mediated, not just by screens and apps, but by these massive corporations that are surveilling ... See more

We want to make incredible books that are beautiful aesthetic objects. We want the writing to be impeccable, we want the production aesthetic to be too. But that’s just the publishing part. We’re also becoming an institute, and as an institute we’re encouraging people to think a little bit deeper about the world we’re creating.

If you learn about An... See more