Twenty-first Century Demoniac is a blog about the strange and fascinating phenomena that make up modern culture. An eclectic mix of insights on internet culture, art and literature, history, and mental health, Twenty-first Century Demoniac takes a closer look at what we’re missing when we get stuck in a doomscroll.

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Helena C. Aeberli is a writer and researcher from London and based in Oxford, where she is working on a PhD on seventeenth-century disordered eating. Beyond Substack, her work can be found in the LARB, London Magazine, Lunate Journal, The Oxford Review of Books, Leon Literary Review, and Atmospheric Quarterly, among others. She was nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize. She is interested in internet culture, feminism, and the history of medicine and the body. She is terminally online, but trying not to be.

Helena procrastinates @helenarambles on twitter.


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writer & researcher from london.