VOLUME 15
Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism: Visions, Ethics and Practices

Edited by Leena Kaunonen

"Profane Illuminations: Machines, Indian Ghosts, and Boundless Flights through Nature at Contemporary Paranormal Gatherings in America"

"Designing has become a liquid discipline pouring into domains that for centuries have been the sole possession of others, such as mathematicians, neurologists, geneticists, artists and manufacturers. Post-digital designers more often design by manipulation than by determinism, and what is designed has become more curious, intuitive, speculative and experimental..."

Always interesting to see a designer's notebooks.

via John Coulthart: someone is posting the entire run of Man, Myth & Magic--1970 occult encyclopaedia in 112 weekly parts--on Flickr

"What I like about the publication is the way it uses its large pages to reproduce smaller magazine-sized pages. The contents page, above, shows how they play with this; the contents listings have been annotated beyond the edges of the reproduced ‘magazine’ by Bruce Weber."

"This seems to be a growing trend, video trailers for single issues of magazines..."

"Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never, is launching a zine this autumn titled Cool Drool. Cool Drool Volume 1: Our Drool & Why features written and visual contributions from Jon Rafman, Megazord, Cory Arcangel, Laurel Halo, Taylor Richardson, Dominic Fernow, Robert Beatty, and Pan's Bill Kouligas. The Wire's Derek Walmsley has also contributed a written piece on the early 90s Amiga demo scene, where coders hailing primarily from Northern Europe released AV material on floppy disc."

Three little magazines were produced by the French émigrés Marcel Duchamp and Henri-Pierre Roché in New York in 1917, and their role in the scandal of Duchamp's Fountain has ensured their inscription in the history of Dada, though the name was then unknown to the protagonists. Duchamp's close friend Francis Picabia was in New York at the same time and his 391 was also exploring Duchamp's idea of the 'readymade'.

"DERZEIT is the first and only independent daily newspaper for Fashion Week Berlin. It's a young and interdisciplinary publication that looks at the cultural field stylishly, critically and with a certain euphoria."

new PDF sf magazine

US numbers: "During 2011’s first quarter, 54 new magazine titles were launched, more than double the number (25) of publications that debuted in first quarter 2010."

"Ultimately, however, the biggest problem of the magazine doesn’t come from its big-name designer, but its overall concept. I just don’t understand what it’s about, who it’s for, or why it exists."

interesting design approach

"TWR combines an austere design attitude with a very contemporary feel; reflected, too, in the journal's well-honed online presence."

new sf. my favourite sf mag

"We hear a lot about Google’s relationship with publishers, but this week the search giant also quietly launched its own online publication based in the UK."

"I just think it needed a little bit more of an improvisational, we-just-did-it-this-week kind of feeling,"

"Exciting news of a third issue of South Africa’s Afro magazine, the magazine in a small box that folds out to become…" What a great idea. A magazine that arrives in a box, no idea what you're going to get...

"This is the first time in the magazine’s 88-year history that Weird Tales has had an all-female editorial/management staff."

"The Illustrated Section is your home for digital comics, picture books, sketchbooks, and art instruction books made by independent creators. Everything here is available for instant download in the widely universal and diverse PDF format."

"The Atavist is a boutique publishing house producing original nonfiction stories for digital, mobile reading devices. We like to think of Atavist pieces as a new genre of nonfiction, a digital form that lies in the space between long narrative magazine articles and traditional books and e-books. Publishing them digitally and offering them individually — a bit like music singles in iTunes — allows us to present stories longer and in more depth than typical magazines, less expensive and more dynamic than traditional books. Most importantly, it gives us new ways to tell some inventive, captivating, cinematic journalism — and new ways for you to experience it..."