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Becoming Press
Joined Metalabel 11/07/2024Becoming Press is an independent publisher of "minor literature"—we use publishing as a way of constructing the necessary scaffolding to build a symbolic fortress that safeguards the semiotic realm of the "in-between". Note: For combined orders with collated shipping costs please visit our main webstore: shop.becoming.press
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Dialogues on CoreCore & the Contemporary Online Avant-Garde (2024) by 0nty & OnMyComputer (Eds.)
by Becoming Press
$12
Featuring visual art and written contributions from 40+ artists, this book on CoreCore, an underground avant-garde movement, pre-emptively inserts itself into the cannibalistic citation loop of academia.
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In the Delirium of the Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited (2025) by Achim Szepanski
by Becoming Press
$10
From Finance to non-philosophy and radical experimental music, Szepanski is an anomalous and masterful theoretician with one hell of a history.
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MeltdownYourBooks, the author of Where Does A Body Begin? (2023), returns to Becoming Press for their second book, focusing not, this time, on the body itself, but what comes next.
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Our Algorithm, who art in AWS servers; lead us not into clickbait, and deliver us from Targeted Ads, for the Platform Economy, the Investment Capital, and the Surplus are yours—now and forever. Amen.
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Our second book was a strange one, some kind of amalgamation of a lore-dump and a cosmological manifesto. It's now available to read as an e-book.
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In this book, we don’t do biology, or fund it, or research it, or practice it; in this book, we are biology.
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Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism & the Apocalypse (2025) by Alessandro Sbordoni
by Becoming Press
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“To quote Alessandro Sbordoni: ‘as the end gets nearer, more is yet to come'. So maybe we already live (in) the end of the world, an end which stretches on endlessly, with no possible resolution." — Slavoj Žižek
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SIAHKAL 2.0: An A.I. resurrected discourse on Marxism & Islam
by Becoming Press, and Parham Ghalamdar
Free
At the core of this project is a translation of “Marxist Islam or Islamic Marxism,” a groundbreaking text written by Bizhan Jazani during his imprisonment in the 1970s under the Shah’s oppressive regime. Translated by a GPT modelled on Jazani's writings, and edited by Parham Ghalamdar.
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NEW EPUB VERSION: Official E-book of Christian Nirvana Damato's Multiplication of Organs Manifesto (2025), a book which attempts to, as Franco 'Bifo' Berardi has said, open up a new field of inquiry, perhaps to be called "Dysphoric Studies" a la Paul Preciado.
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Becoming Press is coming to Venice to celebrate its 10th book—RSVP here to join us for a series of talks and presentations featuring a surprising number of our collaborators. Everything will be filmed, and will be developed into an online lecture series and documentary. See the program below or head to our website or instagram for more.
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Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo
by Becoming Press, and 1 more
$10
NEW EPUB VERSION: Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.
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Open Secret x Becoming Lisbon edition, hosted at 'Casa Do Comum' as a part of Becoming's launch of Unconscious/Television (2025) by Lucas Ferraço Nassif https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auX5SuV8uzg&t=716s Took place in January 22, 18:00 CASA DO COMUM Rua da Rosa 285, Lisbon