* Focus // Tactical Publishing

Talk and Conversation at SAFI FAYE STAGE (HKW)

Alessandro Ludovico presents his latest book, “Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century” (2024), arguing for the importance of post-digital publishing in shaping and developing alternative directions for the current computational media landscape.

By questioning the grammar of publishing itself, Ludovico invites us to de-scale, resist, reduce and restrict the endlessness paradigm created by the digital industry and perpetuated by us – to focus on what matters, to decentralize and re-centre ourselves. Our task, he believes, is to develop an alternative publishing system that transcends the dichotomy between paper and digital media. He argues that the new ecology of publishing should be based on three main elements: the stimulation of our senses, the role of software in forming the publishing infrastructure, and the importance of archives.