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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · May 22

Get reading! All the texts from issue 5 of INSCRIPTION: THE JOURNAL OF MATERIAL TEXT are online and downloadable for free at inscriptionjournal.com
We are a double-blind peer reviewed, green open access journal. Published by Information as Material in a partnership with Leeds Beckett University

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · May 19

A reminder that THIS is coming up next month. A week-long deep dive into the artists' book, with some amazing guest speakers and visits to key collections. Places still available so PLEASE SHARE!!!
16-20th June, London Rare Books School
Book here: ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · May 15

Hooray! We are launched!

Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · May 15

Huge congratulations to the @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social editorial team (@gillpartington.bsky.social @adamwithbooks.bsky.social and Simon Morris) for their shiny new issue! It's full of stripes, holes, and material text fun both contained and uncontained. Have a low-res photo from the launch.

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · May 13

LAST CHANCE to sign up for this, on 23rd May! A hands-on study day in UCL special collections, exploring their most experimental magazines, from the Modernist avant-garde to the mimeo revolution.
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · May 11

INSCRIPTION 5 launch!

If AT LEAST 2 of the following apply to you, do drop by.

(a) you like odd, experimental books (b) you are enthusiastic about the concept of containers (c) you like articles on material texts with holes in (d) you are around London on May 14 May (e) you fancy a glass of wine.

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · May 8

Attention friends and supporters of Inscription Journal: Issue 5 on 'containers' is HERE. We will be celebrating in fine style amid the marble pillars of Senate House, Bloomsbury. Please come and join us. 14th May. Dress code: casual/cardboard box. Register here: tinyurl.com/Inscriptionlaunch

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · May 8

Come and get your fingers inky. Just a few days left to register for this study day at UCL special collections. We'll be getting hands on with mimeo, lo-fi and DIY mags from the 60s and 70s. Please pass on the word! ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · May 7

Inscription issue 5 out RIGHT NOW for purchase: inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

Here it is: all 55 beautiful metres of it, in scroll format.

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55 metres

Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History, issue #5 on 'Containers' is presented as a continuous scroll with accompanying music…

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · May 3

A lightning flick through some of the amazing experimental magazines we'll be exploring in this one day course, coming up THIS MONTH on 23rd May: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz... Places still available but booking ends soon so be quick.

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · May 2

Inscription issue 5 has landed! It's all about CONTAINERS, and it has articles, artworks, and STUFF.

Snap up a copy before they are all gone ...
inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Apr 26

THIS THIS THIS!

gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · Apr 26

Interested in artists' magazines, experimental poetry journals and countercultural press? This one-day course on 23rd May explores some of UCLs most out-there periodicals. Sign up here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...

Magazines, Art and Experiment

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · Mar 13

It’s 13 March day! If you’d like a free copy of my collage-of-one-day-from-the-past, let me know and I’ll post you 13 MARCH 1911 (unless I am besieged).

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Bookmarking Book Art – Adam Smyth

13 March 1911 (2019) 13 March 1911 (2019) Adam Smyth Perfect bound paperback. H175x W115 mm, 64 pages. Edition of 500. Acquired from Information as Material, 10 October 2020. Although unremarkable …

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Jean-Philippe Échard @echardjp.bsky.social · Feb 22

... so happy to co-sign with Marie Radepont @crc-recherche.bsky.social and Étienne Anheim @crhehess.bsky.social an essay which is part of this issue @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social. Printed in a limited number of copies... don't wait if you want to have one!

Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Feb 22

Issue 5 on containers is imminent!

'Containers' considered via ESSAYS and FICTION (Joanna Kavenna) and ART WORKS (Erica Baum, Daniel Buren, Jeremy Deller, Harold Offeh + others)

Pre-order before they're all gone at inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Feb 22

Issue 5 on containers is imminent!

'Containers' considered via ESSAYS and FICTION (Joanna Kavenna) and ART WORKS (Erica Baum, Daniel Buren, Jeremy Deller, Harold Offeh + others)

Pre-order before they're all gone at inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Feb 2

bespoke pod units

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our tidy small containers

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Feb 2

Editorial meeting with Gill, Adam and Simon working on layout of Inscription number 5, on containers.

Advance orders inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

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Marianne Noël @mnoel75.bsky.social · Jan 12

J'adore

Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Jan 11

Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears.

Here is our call for papers -- cut up.

Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Jan 13

We love this!

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Vincent Debiais @vincentdebiais.bsky.social · Jan 12

C'est quand même rassurant de voir la quantité de choses belles, intelligentes, intéressantes qui se font; et qui se font malgré tout, quand même, tant pis et tant mieux.

Avis #MedievalSky : appel pour le prochain numéro de @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social sur les coupes et les déchirures. 👇

Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Jan 11

Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears.

Here is our call for papers -- cut up.

Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Jan 11

Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears.

Here is our call for papers -- cut up.

Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Jan 8

Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears. Here is our call for papers. Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · Dec 17

A micro-essay on categories

Categories (filing cabinets; book shelves)

On my way to the reading room in the National Archives in Kew, I see a set of filing cabinets that carry headings of implausible exactness.

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · Dec 3

Diaries: 1922-1959

From an auction house in Nottingham, I buy a series of 18 diaries running across the early to mid-20th century, kept by a man called Samuel who lived in a village near Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Dec 1

This is our cover for Inscription 5, out early 2025, on containers! The brilliant Kimsooja!

Shipping container all of the artist's personal possessions from her New York apartment
Courtesy of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst and Kimsooja Studio
Photo by Pierre Adenis

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