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PUBLISHING PUBLISHING

We spend a good deal of time thinking about our publishing and how it impacts the communities we are a part of. Reflecting on the many aspects of what we set in motion and what our activities create, or what the work of parallel publishers do, is well represented in the publications pictured above. We’ve turned the above collection into a group of PDFs for anyone who wants to read everything digitally on the cheap.

The newest addition to this growing collection is Marc’s Towards A Self Sustaining Publishing Model (full text in link). After writing this text for a panel organized for Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, by Be Oakley of GenderFail Press, people demanded that this should be turned into a zine, so that is what Marc did. We’ve been giving away copies with every order, but if you want to get extras for your students or help us cover ink and paper, you can order it. You can buy copies in bulk.

Our discussion with Mariame Kaba for Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, where we each discussed our latest books is now online thanks to the dedicated archiving activities of Printed Matter.

Finally, we’ve been starting to carry more books by our publisher friends again are have some new offerings you can find below.

Brett & Marc

PUBLISHING PUBLICATIONS:

Publishing in the Realm of Plant Fibers and Electrons [Digital]

Publishing 'Zines for Prisoners [Digital]

12 Contributors, 5 Publications, 5 Years [Print] [Digital]

What Problems Can Artist Publishers Solve? [Print] [Digital]

Towards a Self Sustaining Publishing Model [Print and Digital]

VIDEO OF OUR CONVERSATION NOW ONLINE

Prisoners’ Inventions & Abolitionist Organizing: Temporary Services in conversation with Mariame Kaba

In 2001, the group Temporary Services invited their incarcerated friend Angelo, from California, to draw and write about the different things he had seen other inmates invent. Angelo illustrated everything from immersion heaters with electrical plugs made from razor blades, paper clips, and popsicle sticks, to cooking methods for bologna jerky on built-in cell light fixtures. These drawings and writings became the book and widely exhibited project Prisoners’ Inventions, first published in 2003. An expanded reprint, published by Temporary Services’ imprint Half Letter Press is finally available after over 15 years.

For this program, Temporary Services discusses the book and is joined by writer, organizer, and educator Mariame Kaba, whose work advocates for the abolition of the prison industrial complex. In the program, Kaba presents her latest book We Do This 'Til We Free Us; Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, which has just been released by Haymarket Books. The program concludes with a conversation between Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer of Temporary Services and Mariame Kaba about collaborating with incarcerated people and the complexities and hurdles we face in our shared organizing and publishing practices. Presented by Temporary Services / Half Letter Press.

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Angelo’s writings and drawings about the inventions he observed while incarcerated, back in print and expanded after over 15 years.

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