Thoughts on publishing and editorial design matters
Premise
During the 5-day workshop we will examine the possibilities of self-destruction in relation to cross-media publishing.
Modes of production: Discussion, sketching & prototyping, paired with hands-on exercises (crash course: terminal, crash course: python & scrape yourself).
Why do we like publishing?
Events
"Events Have Become Magazines", Bruce Sterling
Christoph Schlingensief: Ausländer Raus
Hackers & Designers Summer Talks
And further
"(…) Labor is what produces capital and all those activities that do not produce capital are not labor.” Michael Hardt
The Whole Earth Catalog
In 1910 Marinetti climbed on the clock tower in Venice to drop leaflets.
The Futurist Manifesto
"One publishes to find comrades", Andre Breton
Mobile self-publishing for dissident content: Mimeograph
Stencilzolder Amsterdam
Octave Uzanne: The Author as his own publisher
Why do we like destruction?
Who does not like to blow up things?
Fluxus Newspaper meant to be torn apart
Agrippa 1992, William Gibson
H&D publishing attempts
Link to the etherpad
Etherpad: Collective note taking
Goals for this week
Make a publication or a prototype of a publication that has a build in expiration date (optimally the date of the end presentation, Friday February 12th). The publication in this context can live online or/and offline. It can be printed matter, e-pub, a performance, an object or an audio file, as long it’s informed by technology in some extend.