🚨SOLD OUT🚨 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The first of many, *ASSEMBLY: An Inventory of Images* is an ongoing series of publications focused on critically observing and commenting on the world around us, not through words, but images.
Always Black and white, always 160 pages, and never larger than 108 x 177mm. Printed on-demand and in-flux. Edition: 010. 15 USD + Free US Domestic Shipping📦DM to order.
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Issue 1 A/W: David Wise, https://forthcoming.studio/
@david_wise
Issue 2 A/W: Clint Soren, /
@csoren
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ASSEMBLY is an accessory.
ASSEMBLY is a replacement.
ASSEMBLY is to be read.
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Taken from Issue 1: This particular format references the small, and yet almost infinitely produced mass-paperbacks designed to be carried with you, used, referenced and passed along. There is a also an attempt to, not so directly, connect this purely image-based publishing to a long cultural lineage of theoretical and critical titles such Marshall McLuhan's *The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects*, of which this series takes it's name and size, or Suhrkamp Verlag's many published titles ranging from Poetry to Literary Fiction, as well as the overt and dryly named line of “Academic Non-fiction” that houses texts by writers and theorists ranging from Theodor Adorno, Jürgen Habermas, and Boris Groys, just to name a few. *ASSEMBLY* is a means of showing and reflecting on how the world has changed. We are reading less, and simultaneously looking more. Content is rarely crafted now as much as it is algorithmically served, and more often than not—forcibly. *ASSEMBLY* aims to remedy this.
Like Richard Kostelanetz's pioneering *Assembling* and other gathered publications of the 1960s and 70s such as *Omnibus News* for instance, *ASSEMBLY* aims to provide contributors with the space to experiment and publish images that otherwise sit uncomfortably at the periphery of their practice, allowing for a type of publishing that pushed the boundaries of what is otherwise expected from, or accepted by the “carefully curated” and increasingly convoluted feeds that surround us.
More Forthcoming Soon...