About Sam Robinson
Footnotes is a newsletter about movement in all its meanings.
Explore the cultural, historical, and existential terrain of life on foot: the philosophy of walking, the politics of public space, the rituals of runners, the violent poetry of a bike crash, and the quiet power of sidewalks, streets, and trails.
Stories explore the joy of motion, but also exhaustion, urban design, memory, and the body’s resistance to being optimized. From medieval monks to modern marathoners, from stroller jogs to protest marches, Footnotes traces how we live, think, and connect through movement.
Footnotes is a cultural-literary project about human movement with feet-on-the-ground thinking about endurance, cities, capitalism, and time. Think The Atlantic in sneakers.