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The Twilight Zone: Publishing the Obsolete
The twilight zone: a space where light and shadow intersect, where day ceases to be day and night ceases to be night. It is a transitional area, an unstable interval where everything can acquire a new meaning. In the twilight, perceptions shift. What once appeared solid turns into a mystery, and what was dismissed reappears…
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Mutations of the Visible: A Future Archaeology of Publishing
Introduction What if publishing, far from being a stable industry of books and journals, were instead a fleeting adaptation—an evolutionary gesture that changes as humanity itself mutates? What if the future of publishing had less to do with innovations in digital media and more to do with the transformation of human perception, memory, and imagination?…
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Publishing Silence: Toward an Ethics of Editorial Quiet
“True silence is the rest of the mind.” — Max Picard In a world increasingly saturated with language, content, and noise, the question is no longer how to speak, but how to remain silent without disappearing. Silence, when understood not as absence but as presence, might offer one of the most radical editorial gestures of…
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Publishing in the Wake of Things
At a time when planetary systems are under strain—from environmental degradation to information overload—publishing finds itself at a crossroads. The challenges we face are not only ecological, but also epistemic and material: how do we produce and share knowledge without further exhausting the world? In this context, the future of publishing cannot be reduced to…
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Publishing Futures * By Luís Alegre 