Publishing Futures
Coordinated by Luís Alegre
PTEN

PUBLISHINGFUTURES

AN UNFINISHED PUBLICATION

39 ESSAYS / PT—EN

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PUBLISHINGBODIESTECHNOLOGIESECOLOGIESPOLITICS + COMMUNITY
01Are there too many images?02The Illusion of Thinking Without a Body03Against Purity: Design, Potential, and System04Making the Hand: The AI Error as the Body’s Memory05The Economy of Return06Neurocapitalism: The Gospel According to Gyro Gearloose07Solidarity in Limited Edition08How to Turn Defeat into a Lifestyle: Insidious Notes on C…09A book is a body that cannot stand upright, made of margi…10The Desire for Desires: A Short Illustrated History of th…11The Twilight Zone: Publishing the Obsolete12Atlas of Machinic Surrealism13“You Smell Good” — Genealogy of a Text on AI, Authorship…14Jusqu’ici Tout Va Bien (So Far, So Good)15Chance as Method: Francis Bacon and the Roulette of Artif…16Bodies in Friction: Derek Jarman and Other Deviant Inscri…17Editorial Meteorology: Publishing during times of collapse18The Distilled Life19Funny Jaws20The Pink Panther, the Little Man and the Ghost of Patriarchy21The Phantom Blot Has No Tax Identification Number22In the Spirit of Friendship23The Future as Simulation — Towards a Critique of Post-Uto…24Programming Disobedience: Paradoxes of Artificial Creativity25untitled_with_final_definitive_publication (unstable vers…26The Sleeping Word: Fragments of an Enchanted Publication27The Mirror of the Machine — Superintelligence, Artificial…28The School of the Uncontrollable: A Fugue in a Not-So-Dis…29What do We See When We See?30The Archive of Small Transitions: Errantry, Collectivity,…31A Dog That Shits Critique Instead of Barking32When the World Stops Singing: Prophetic Dreams in the Dark33Mutations of the Visible: A Future Archaeology of Publishing34Publishing Silence: Toward an Ethics of Editorial Quiet35Publishing in the Wake of Things36The Studio as Material Node: Toward a Sustainable Infrast…37Other Worlds of Publishing: Holding Space for the Not-Yet38Publishing Futures: Design, Food, and the Rituals of Maki…39Critique as Commodity: The Contradictions of Critical Des…
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Are there too many images?

TECHNOLOGIES + POLITICS + COMMUNITY
02

The Illusion of Thinking Without a Body

BODIES
03

Against Purity: Design, Potential, and System

PUBLISHING + TECHNOLOGIES
04

Making the Hand: The AI Error as the Body’s Memory

BODIES + TECHNOLOGIES
05

The Economy of Return

ECOLOGIES + PUBLISHING
06

Neurocapitalism: The Gospel According to Gyro Gearloose

BODIES + TECHNOLOGIES
07

Solidarity in Limited Edition

POLITICS + COMMUNITY
08

How to Turn Defeat into a Lifestyle: Insidious Notes on Cornélio Vazio and the Liturgy of Disenchantment

PUBLISHING + BODIES
09

A book is a body that cannot stand upright, made of margins and gaps, always falling into the interval.

PUBLISHING + BODIES
10

The Desire for Desires: A Short Illustrated History of the Infinite Yawn

PUBLISHING + BODIES
11

The Twilight Zone: Publishing the Obsolete

PUBLISHING
12

Atlas of Machinic Surrealism

TECHNOLOGIES + ECOLOGIES
13

“You Smell Good” — Genealogy of a Text on AI, Authorship and Memory

TECHNOLOGIES
14

Jusqu’ici Tout Va Bien (So Far, So Good)

BODIES + TECHNOLOGIES
15

Chance as Method: Francis Bacon and the Roulette of Artificial Intelligence

TECHNOLOGIES + BODIES
16

Bodies in Friction: Derek Jarman and Other Deviant Inscriptions

BODIES + TECHNOLOGIES
17

Editorial Meteorology: Publishing during times of collapse

PUBLISHING + ECOLOGIES
18

The Distilled Life

BODIES
19

Funny Jaws

ECOLOGIES
20

The Pink Panther, the Little Man and the Ghost of Patriarchy

ECOLOGIES
21

The Phantom Blot Has No Tax Identification Number

TECHNOLOGIES + PUBLISHING
22

In the Spirit of Friendship

TECHNOLOGIES + POLITICS + COMMUNITY
23

The Future as Simulation — Towards a Critique of Post-Utopian Innovation

POLITICS + COMMUNITY
24

Programming Disobedience: Paradoxes of Artificial Creativity

TECHNOLOGIES + BODIES
25

untitled_with_final_definitive_publication (unstable version)

PUBLISHING + TECHNOLOGIES
26

The Sleeping Word: Fragments of an Enchanted Publication

PUBLISHING + TECHNOLOGIES
27

The Mirror of the Machine — Superintelligence, Artificial Life, and the Risk of Failing Better

TECHNOLOGIES + BODIES
28

The School of the Uncontrollable: A Fugue in a Not-So-Distant Future

POLITICS + COMMUNITY
29

What do We See When We See? 

TECHNOLOGIES + BODIES
30

The Archive of Small Transitions: Errantry, Collectivity, and the Paths Ahead

PUBLISHING + TECHNOLOGIES
31

A Dog That Shits Critique Instead of Barking

POLITICS + COMMUNITY + TECHNOLOGIES
32

When the World Stops Singing: Prophetic Dreams in the Dark

ECOLOGIES + TECHNOLOGIES
33

Mutations of the Visible: A Future Archaeology of Publishing

PUBLISHING
34

Publishing Silence: Toward an Ethics of Editorial Quiet

PUBLISHING + TECHNOLOGIES
35

Publishing in the Wake of Things

PUBLISHING + ECOLOGIES
36

The Studio as Material Node: Toward a Sustainable Infrastructure for Hybrid Publishing

ECOLOGIES + PUBLISHING
37

Other Worlds of Publishing: Holding Space for the Not-Yet

PUBLISHING + ECOLOGIES
38

Publishing Futures: Design, Food, and the Rituals of Making Public

PUBLISHING + ECOLOGIES
39

Critique as Commodity: The Contradictions of Critical Design Publishing

PUBLISHING + POLITICS + COMMUNITY