Week 0
Cortney Cassidy, “A Soft Manifesto,” The Creative Independent, 2020
Week 1
Information as Material, Do or DIY, 2015
Ulises Carrión, “The New Art of Making Books,” 1975
Temporary Services and Kione Kochi, Publishing in the Realm of Plant Fibers and Electrons, 2014
Week 2
Eric Schierloh, “How to Prepare Yourself for the Collapse of the Industrial Publishing System”, 2021
Matthew Stadler, “The Ends of the Book: Reading, Economies, and Publics,” 2011
Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, “Experimental publishing and alternative networked cultures”, 2021 [video]
Week 3
Roland Barthes, “Death of the Author,” 1967
Lisa Gitelman, Amateurdom and Its Discontents, Or, What Is a Zine?, 2013 [video]
Keynote talk for the June 2013 Symposium on Emerging Genres, Forms, Narratives—in New Media Environments. Held by the North Carolina State University program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media.
Week 4
Alessandro Ludovico, Post-digital print: a future scenario, 2012
Kenneth Goldsmith, Duchamp is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb, 2020