Title: The Boreal Crown and the Downfall of Civilization
Category: Politics (though this doesn't feel right; maybe I should make a Utopian category)
A thought-provoking and very useful set of essays that serve as an introduction to the utopian thought of Charles Fourier, and an incitement to imaginatively participate in his vision. A really useful zine, since Fourier's utopian writings, which had an impact on many contemporaneous marxist and anarchist thinkers, have long been out of print or hard to find in english.
Title: Astral Projection for the Modern Business
Category: Work
A mysterious and appealing riso zine in a unique skinny rectangle type format. I knew I had to pick this one up because I've been very into parody or satire for estranging the accepted absurdities of work lately. Work from home becoming much more of a norm in response to the COVID-19 pandemic kind of forces the question of the extent to which a lot of contemporary work requires presence versus simply using it as a means of control, or, on the other hand, demands splitting your knowledge and skills from feeble human limitations of the body. This zine combines evocative language somewhere between a guide to witchcraft and a timeshare brochure with savvy appropriations of public domain art to push the fantasies of worker compliance and productivity represented by the increasingly abstract, financialized economy to weird and hilarious extremes.