Soft Publishing Fall 2026 Class / Soft Publishing Week 3: Monday, November 9

In class

• Reading discussion
• Manifesto presentations
• Introduce zine project

Guest lecture

Amelia Greenhall and Adam Greenhall of ANEMONE

Reading

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.

Assignment

1. Using physical mediums and the resources available to you, publish a small printed artifact.
   
2. Select a portion of your work that you feel would be best represented in a printed format.
3. You can use this template that uses a single piece of paper with a series of folds and cutting. You can explore other formats.
4. Create a prototype and prepare to present it, and the reasons and values represented in the prototype, to the class.