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People who do zines... how does it differ from blogging or tumblr culture? Is it just a hipster throwback to late 80s or something? I like the “underground” vibe, but don’t quite get it. It’s not like there’s a reason for undergroundness like samizdat. So, it’s about community?
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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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main value comes from the offline communities they circulate in (at least in my experience in punk/hardcore). people don’t go to church and read from a bible app
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There's a lot of zinester cultures. For radical political spaces it's a legacy of needing very cheap print-on-demand books and distributed physical archives that can survive repression, with the benefit of obliging physical space bookfairs & infoshops.
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