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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History launched in 2020, edited by Simon Morris, Gill Partington and Adam Smyth, and published by the artist’s book imprint http://www.informationasmaterial.org in partnership with Leeds Beckett University. It’s been described by the Times Literary Supplement as ‘a shot in the arm for academic publishing’ – ‘each…

Call for Submissions Phyllis Johnson, editor or the 1960s New York magazine-in-a-box Aspen, used the term magazine to hark back to the original meaning of the word as “a storehouse, a cache, a ship laden with stores”‘ from the Arabic makzin, makzan, ‘storehouse’. But what are the implications of framing the book as a container…