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Apr 28, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #12: Anti-Pop and the Aesthetic of Failure (w/ Ken Shipley, of The Numero Group)
The value of amateurism and persistence, ‘working artists’ and uneven stardom, technological change and the continued importance of craft.
Jan 4, 2025 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #11: Syntax
Some friends and I made a magazine!
Dec 14, 2023 • Lucas Gelfond
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ZINE MUNCH #12: Anti-Pop and the Aesthetic of Failure (w/ Ken Shipley, of The Numero Group)
Jan 4, 2025 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #9: Twitter Mutual Writer House and the Limits of Critique (w/ Jessica Dai and Emily Liu)
Oct 12, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #3: Two Shell, Shitposting, and One Direction (w/ @meetmeintranspecos)
May 17, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #8: Can a blog be a zine? (w/ Jenna Freedman)
Sep 13, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #7: Academia’s Gossip Rag (w/ Alexander Star)
Jul 26, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #1: Hermeneutics, Astronauts, and T.W. Adorno (w/ Josh Glenn)
May 4, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #10: George Plimpton, Merge Records, and Doomscrolling (w/ JC Gabel)
On the golden age of longform and the tyranny of ‘branded content’
Feb 15, 2023 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #9: Twitter Mutual Writer House and the Limits of Critique (w/ Jessica Dai and Emily Liu)
On Kernel Magazine, agency, and moving beyond tech boosterism or tech fatalism
Oct 12, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #8: Can a blog be a zine? (w/ Jenna Freedman)
On F-Train writer residencies, zine physicality, and the wisdom of the catalog
Sep 13, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #7: Academia’s Gossip Rag (w/ Alexander Star)
On Lingua Franca and the contrarian potential of the little magazine
Jul 26, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #6: Chomsky and the Kinkos Night Shift (at Interference Archive w/ Josh MacPhee)
On culture-making and social movements
Jun 14, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #5: Wikipedia Esoterica and ‘Rogue Editing’ (w/ Annie Rauwerda)
On @depthsofwikipedia and communal knowledge production
Jun 1, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
ZINE MUNCH #4: Dangerous Archives and Mail Networks (w/ Milo Miller)
On ‘cat chat,’ Fuh Cole, and the Queer Zine Archive Project
May 25, 2022 • Lucas Gelfond
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