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
Bruno Ceschel, The Self Publish, Be Happy Manifesto, 2015
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
Eva Wienmayr, “Noun to Verb: Propositions for Transformative Intersectional Publishing,” 2024 [video]
Inaugural Lecture: Eva Weinmayr, Professor for Critical Access, Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures, Basel Academy of Art and Design
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, and the appendix: “Print vs. electrons”, pages 159–161