Soft Publishing Fall 2026 Class / Soft Publishing Week 2: Monday, November 2

In class

• Soft Manifesto discussion
• Lecture 2: [tbd]
• Overview of collective publication project goals
• Introduce publishing manifesto assignment

Reading

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]

Assignment

Write a brief publishing manifesto informed by the Soft Manifesto answers and (the lecture 2 / publishing framework).