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Housekeeping Note

July 26, 2013 | Author Pater Tenebrarum

Dear Readers,

We hereby want to welcome our new readers and thank our long time readers for their continued patronage of Acting Man.

E-Book Project

We also want to announce an upcoming project. We plan to produce a collection of past articles on theory and history and publish it as an e-book.

Why might this be useful? For one thing, newer readers are often not aware of these articles, unless we happen to refer back to them. For both long time and new readers such an e-book may be a valuable resource. Obviously, we are not inventing the wheel anew; we are merely providing relatively short and easy to grasp summaries of what are often considered complex topics.

Here are a few examples of articles that can be expected to be part of the collection (they will be edited a bit for the book):

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