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BECOMING PRESS


Becoming Magazine: Issue Two
by Various Authors





This issue is dedicated to the first-born of Becoming, a record label named Eternal/Return. We are using ÊT/RE to return to our centre, Music. Yet, we have a specific take on music that we wish to dedicate ÊT/RE to: we want to view music as a matter of world-building, of utterance, invocation—music is the second fire of Prometheus, we must carry it into the dark as we would a flame. Music is arcane; it is a ritual of summoning, of calling a forth a future—it is with sound that we create new spacetimes, and with music we create new worlds. It is hard to talk about music without talking about everything else. So that's what we did. 


   CONTENTS: 

Music is older than the World.
Editor's Letter by Palais Sinclaire.

The Affinity between Music & Divinity. 
In conversation with Charles Mudede. 

A Body complicates.
In conversation with Female Wizard. 

Music, the Ocean & Man: Three modes of Movement. 
In conversation with Mystiki Fleva. 

Prelude to our [Eternal/Return]. 
In conversation with Rose Laurel. 

The Alfa & Omega of Ibrahim Junior. 
In conversation with Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. 

Honestly...
In conversation with IOLI. 

Nostalgia for Non-Places:
Some posthumous notes on Vaporwave by 0nty. 

  • Published by Becoming
  • Co-designed with Palais Sinclaire
  • Details: A4, 80 pages, Colour, Stapled bound


In the Delirium 
of the Simulation: 
Baudrillard Revisited 
by Achim Szepanski



15 years after his death, the ghost of Jean Baudrillard lingers. Beyond just a pessimistic media theorist, the hyper-realist metaphysician of media and information may have become more relevant than ever before, and many of the concepts that Baudrillard left behind have become guiding principles in an ever deteriorating situation. Much of these ideas, from the Hyperreal to Cultural Nihilism, were repopularised in the last 15 years through such books as Capitalist Realism, in which the poster child for critical theory, Mark Fisher, appeared to have left the world a message, written in blood on the inside of our shared prison cell: Baudrillard was right! 

A lot of the most frightening confessions there drew primarily from Baudrillard such as the future collapsing in on itself, and all meaning and symbolism melting down into a delirious nihilism under the ever-rising heat of Capital as it establishes itself as an all-encompassing, totalising, technology-obsessed form of dominion, that thinks and acts of its own will, like an Artificial Intelligence that endlessly feeds itself data until all information has been devoured.




Where does a Body begin? Biology’s function in Contemporary Capitalism by M.Y.B & i0 xen0





The book's title "Where does a body begin?" asks a question that begins to reveal some of the issues faced in the field of Biology, namely the difficulty with which contemporary Biology has in determining the limits of the body, or rather what constitutes the body and what doesn't: where, precisely, is the body? Where does it begin?

  • Published by Becoming
  • Typography & Layout by Polymnia
  • Illustrated by Rachel Lillim
  • Details: A6, 116 pages
  • Moving Poster collab with Machine Yearning
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Affects & Dreams: a Manual for Becoming by niko mas


  • Published by Polymnia
  • Typography & Layout by Polymnia
  • Details: 11x18cm, 113 pages
  • Illustrated by Angeliki Koutsodimitropoulou
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Becoming Magazine: Issue One
by Various Authors



    TOPICS COVERED:

Artificial Intelligence, Suicide, Baudrillard and Hyperrealism, Nihilistic Orgies, Language, Archiving, Flowering

    FEATURED AUTHORS:

Achim Szepanski, niko mas, Akira Palais, k0, blks.666, Ubungxenye, George Rallis, Iara Lee