Now-Time – Issue 1
"A Whirlpool in the River of Becoming"
6.75" x 9.5", 226 pages, Offset 1C + CYMK
Published by Now-Time, Queens NYC
Now-Time is a research and publishing project coordinating a multiplicity of historical lines oriented towards present activity. We aim to relink design, critical consciousness, and social-historical perspective. With collaborators we create new works that move through the maze of what has been, and transform those old works that speak indirectly but lucidly to the present situation.
T̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶l̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ The swirling of time
What is...is dependent on what's in circulation. What stands, what is about to disappear, what should be no longer. Renewing whats been dragged to the bottom of the vortex. What = useful ideas, questions, and truths in art / stories / evidence passed from the past.


The task is to cooperatively construct a counter-past of charged material, contributing to the general social imaginary, highlighting untimely potentials and capacities to draw from.
Contributors : Present : Experimental Jetset, Ben DuVall, Megan Switzer, Rania Dalloul, Blake Leigh, Zoe Kauder Nalebuff, Jacob Lindgren, Matt Peterson, Nickolas Calabrese, William Lockett, Alex Wolfe, Maria Rivero Gonzalez, Alan Smart, Gilbert Again, Alan Reed OSB, Tiger Dingsun
Contributors : Charged with Now-Time : J.A. Comenius, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), A.S. Eddington, Facteur Cheval, Abraham Moles, Jean-François Lyotard, Barb McClain, Flora Tristan, Born In Flames (1983), Bertolt Brecht, Frantz Fanon, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, + Much Else
Critical Dictionary : Ryōanji, Labyrinthian Clarity, Fixed-Explosive, Vermiculation, What is a Madeleine?
Dragonfly-Eye in Print : Klew 1 – 8
Issue 1 Index 
Constellations : Disorder in the Production of Books, Making Holes in Time, Coordinating the Now, A Theory of the Bootleg, (The Dead) Live in Your Work, Four Socio-Diagrams, Posters in the Age of Posting, Dots: My Brothers and Sisters, Billiards: Dialectics of More and Less, Utopian Character on Fabric, Fashion is a Script to be Read, Alchemy & Organization, Women's Army & Dead Boys, Three Other Possibilities for Radio, The Professional Artist b2b Vision in Motion, Real Historical Community, Philosophical Beef, Backbones of a Practice, Walking & Metamorphosis, Stability & Transformation, Aura vs. Critical Concepts, Breuer's Midwestern Parable, Thoughts on Words and Numbers.
Ships w/ 22.75" x 33" Issue 1 Poster


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