For the Society of Cultural Anthropology “Unconference” this year, I designed a DIY installation to share zines I’ve collected over the past decade, including dozens made by st…
In spring 2024, several students in my Wicked Science (or “Transdisciplinary Problem-Solving”) course made zines as a final project to illustrate a wicked problem of their interest. These…
The DOPE Conference is back in person this year and I’ve put together a little zine (“Bacteria Farmers”) for a session on “Speculating on an Multispecies Urban Future”:…
How do zines offer different possibilities of connection and expression for anthropologists? For this year’s AAA meeting in Toronto, I participated in a roundtable organized by Stephanie Sadre-…
As students and I have been creating more zines (both through classes and research projects), we have started to build a critical mass of them. You can now…
Our zine “Infrastructural Digest” is now completed(!) and 250 copies have just been printed for the opening of the Privy2 demonstration garden. The zine features original artwork and…
Rather than do terms papers or group presentations for my History of Anthropological Theory class this semester, I had students work in groups to develop zines based on…
By Marissa Lorusso In many societies, the power of the written word is unequally distributed: access to literacy and literature, along with editing, publishing, and distribution don’t always…