Week 0
Cortney Cassidy, “A Soft Manifesto,” The Creative Independent, 2020
Read before the first class
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]
Panel discussion convened by Ruth Blacksell and Lozana Rossenova, with contributions from Karen Di Franco, Aymeric Mansoux, Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak. Hosted by the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, University of Reading
Week 3
James Hoff, Jordan Nassar, Rachel Valinsky, Travis Diehl, “Printed Matter: The Bookshop that Changed Artist Publishing,” 2026
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
Laurel Schwulst, “My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?” The Creative Independent, 2018
Alessandro Ludovico, Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894, 2012
Read the conclusion: “Post-digital print: a future scenario,” pages 153–156
Kenneth Goldsmith, Duchamp is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb, 2020
Read the introduction: “The Back Door,” pages 1–20