Originally co-authored with Craig Dworkin and Simon Morris, this text serves as an introduction to the concealed history of do-it-yourself publishing practiced by some of the most revered writers in the Western canon. The text compiles true anecdotes from this history, aggregating them into a polemical essay about DIY activism in the field of publishing.
Since its original publication in English, translations of the essay have been prepared in Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese. Each translator adds anecdotes from their native literary history, making the manuscript snowball with each new edition and expanding its authorship.
The itinerant manuscript is occassionally translated back into English and re-published in DIY formats. In 2015, an expanded second edition was published on an office photocopier in conjunction with an Information As Material solo show at Peltz Gallery in Birkbeck, London. That expanded second edition was anthologised in Publishing Manifestos, published by MIT Press in 2019.
