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Dilettante Army is a website for short-form cultural and creative writing from a community dedicated to creating a communal discussion and body of work.

Dilettante Army is a coalition of thinkers who dabble passionately in a litany of disciplines. Our army consists of writers, artists, and critics who privilege everything from the fanciful to the cerebral with a healthy dose of snark. In 18th century Italy, a ‘dilettante’ was a passionate lover and supporter of music. Since then, it’s become a derogatory term for people who aren’t dedicated or serious. We’d like to reclaim this word as a badge of honor. Dilettantes are freelancers, interns, students, adjuncts, and anyone else who doesn’t work in the culture industry full-time but still pursues their projects with hapless fervor. This website features short-form cultural and creative writing from our dilettante contributors. DA aims to underscore the free-floating status of cultural texts, letting them link together rhizome-style to acknowledge and inform their neighbors. As the site grows, you should be able to search the database and find a group of voices chiming in any given subject. Posts are short and to-the-point in order to allow readers to interject; you can submit your response at the bottom of the page. If it’s relevant, your response will be posted on its own instead of being lost in the bowels of a comments thread. It’ll help keep the dialogue front and center. The more people who use the site, the bigger it’ll grow and the sooner we can take over the world.

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