From creating, designing and conceptualising to filtering, circulating and amplifying, publishing practices involve different processes and matters. Even though there are multiple theories and authors that approach each of them in a particular way, we propose to make a pause on defining them individually and focus on possible entanglements. Not to find a generalized idea of publishing but to see it as a complex and living materiality.
This glossary is an ongoing and ever-transforming attempt to introduce a diffractive methodology inside publishing practices at large, from the understanding of publishing as the act of making public. It is organized as a bag of words that gathers different annotations on words instead of closed definitions. Words are tools, concepts, resources, shapes that have properties that enhance new possibilities. Words in this glossary don't close the publishing scenario to a territorial one in arts, design or so. They are porous and permeable to other spheres of action.
Because the glossary is seen as mutable, the current state is a result of collective workshops were participants are invited to think and converse around its words and annotations. During the workshop, diffraction performs a conscious interconnection of practices beyond reflection.
If you want to contribute adding new words, annotations or properties, please check the source pad and read the instructions.