Backbone, Issue 3: Auditory Ascesis

The author of Backbone takes a break from observing socio-political subculture and “retreats inwards”, chronicling the first three years of their journey of giving up secular music. The riso color for this issue is “Burgundy”.

Backbone ( the series): "Backbone" is a series comprised of single color riso zines, detailing the musings of an anonymous Orthodox Christian cultural theorist. The mixed media zine's text is typically typewritten in a rather poetic fashion, and is Riso screenprinted. The entirety of each zine is made without a computer, using only fabric, lace, a typewriter, a caligraphy pen, a label maker, and other forms of mixed media and found objects. The name "Backbone" was coined in the first issue, when the accelerationist future was compared to "a backbone growing inside an animal" and it was declared that "the place of a skull (golgotha) breaks the bone", meaning that Christ's destruction of death itself is more powerful than the singularity.

The zine series will be a run of physicals only, no ebooks due to theoretical consistency.

Projected release date is in August 2024.

Zine available for purchase here

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 might have some smudging variance for aesthetic purposes.