Soft Publishing Fall 2026 / Soft Publishing Week 4: Monday, November 16

In class

1.5 hours

• Reading discussion
• Zine presentations

30 minutes

• Introduce web project

Guest lecture

Elliot Cost of Bell Kiosk

Reading

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

Kenneth Goldsmith, Duchamp is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb, 2020

Assignment

Using digital mediums and resources available to you, publish a small digital artifact.

1. First, select a reason from “95 reasons for having your own website” from Bell Kiosk (Elliott Cost) that also aligns best with your publishing manifesto.

2. Explore the tools in the Soft Publishing Tools channel on Are.na. Use one that will best represent your reason for having a website and the content you wish to publish on it. You can explore other tools not included in the channel.

3. Create a prototype. Prepare to present it, the reasons, and the values represented in the prototype, to the class.