Soft Publishing Fall 2026 Class / Soft Publishing Week 1: Monday, October 26

In class

• Introductions
• Syllabus reading
• Lecture 1: “Soft Publishing"

Pre-reading

Cortney Cassidy, “A Soft Manifesto,” The Creative Independent, 2020

Reading

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

Assignment

1. Answer the ten Soft Manifesto questions
2. Visit a local book collection (new or used bookstore, corporate or indie, library, archive) and observe the direct and indirect values on display
3. After your visit, add an eleventh question and answer it