Papercuts: The Horizons of Minor Publishing

This chapter opens a new problem space for transdisciplinary work with and against the broad field of publishing studies and its kindred fields. We are calling that problem space minor publishing. With it, we aim to orient an approach to cultures of sharing that emerge from conditions of social crisis—in particular those that find ways to diffract the very conditions of crisis through forms of anti-publishing rather than merely express a representation of crisis in a publication. In turn, we ask what a radically different editorial praxis might enable for study of this problem space, in the name of research, if it is re-modelled on principles that think with minor publishing cultures rather than simply interpret them.