Backbone, Issue 1: Iconography Will Be the Last Art to Ever Exist
A single color riso zine series detailing the musings of an anonymous Orthodox Christian cultural theorist. The first issue covers why Orthodox Christian iconography will be the only art to survive the artificial intelligence takeover. The mixed media zine's text is typewritten in a rather poetic fashion, and is Riso screenprinted. The entire zine was made without a computer, using only fabric, lace, a typewriter, a caligraphy pen, and a label maker.
The zine series will be a run of physicals only, no ebooks due to theoretical consistency.
Further zine topics will include the chess move of the intention of anonymity, our vices as infiltration, the deep fake courts, screens as scrying mirrors, the toll houses, and the romanticization of cyberpunk.
If you are unfamiliar with risographs, please read before purchasing:
Risographs consist of a layer of ink screenprinted on top of the page, therefore they are prone to smudging and being affected by improper handling. Please be aware of this as you are handling the zine. They also produce slight variances due to being put through a fast screenprinting machine that should not be a problem issue to issue. This zine in particular may have some variance in smudging, kept purely to align with the vaguely distressed aesthetic.
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