Also wondering if there’s an interesting way to zinify my new blog chain format. Like collect the latest “blocks” into a single printable PDF or static site or something. My own tack on undergroundness is more epistemic than social
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I’m not a part of that community but have long been adjacent to it. I think there’s a profound appreciation of the physical and tangible. Similar to collecting vinyl or recording reel-to-reel. You can feel it, smell it, break it, etc. like humans evolved to do.
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Fun story: I stocked our convergence center for the 2008 RNC protests with literally thousands of zines. When the swat team raided they stole them all as evidence. (And I promptly restocked with thousands more). But the kicker was what they paraded before the media as evidence.
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Zine publishers surely have more active control over the content experience in a bespoke manner.
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LATE 80s? We were doing zines in the late 70s.
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Shared aesthetic, handcrafted away from the corporatized anodyne marketing apparatus that kills any true art it manages to find.
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And the community which non-electronic free/cheap informational packets appeals to is a very.. unique? bohemian? punk? counter-cultural one; e.g. I first read SCUMM in zine form
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You get to do the words/pictures/layout too which may not be your strong suits. Tangible yeah. Ad free. Self-contained. And for sure just joyous nostalgia. Print is still a pretty amazing technology.
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