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

In class

1 hour

• Introductions
• Reading discussion

1 hour

• Syllabus reading
• Q&A

1 hour

• Lecture 1: “Soft Publishing”

Pre-reading

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

Reading

Information as Material, Do or DIY, 2015

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. Inspired by your visit, add an eleventh question to the Are.na channel, and prepare an answer to it to share with the class