Edited with Kathrin Benthele, Anna Gritz, and Ghislaine Leung*, the 22nd issue, “Zeros and Ones” turned out to be a nice issue…
F.R.DAVID “Zeros and Ones”
May 17, 2023
H.D., Palimpsest
September 21, 2018
“I must explain to you first that the novel is not intended as a work of art—at least, not as it stands. It is a means to an end. I want to clear up an old tangle.…”
Postcommodity, Alex Waterman and Ociciwan: “in memoriam…”
June 21, 2017
“in memoriam…Mary Cecil,Victoria Callihoo (née Belcourt), and Eleanor (Helene) Thomas Garneau” adds a new score and production by Postcommodity and Alex Waterman to a suite of four early scores by the American composer Robert Ashley.
“Resistance”
May 28, 2019
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Lyn Hejinian’s unpublished prose poem which (in her better-known essay The Rejection of Closure) the author reads closely as model for various, open, equitable relations between language and things
F.R.DAVID “Take, Eat”
January 17, 2022
The 21st issue, “Take, Eat” is edited by Will Holder, with Andrea di Serego Alighieri.
Sue Nixon “Homophone Dictionary”
November 11, 2020
Finally, although the format is structured, there’s little concern for conserving a consistency of style in the sentences – some are long, some are short, some are serious, some are silly.
Job Interviews
March 1, 2018
Edited and illustrated by Chris Evans, and co-published with Para Site, Hong Kong.
“The ritual of the job interview can be considered as a courtship that’s conditioned by protocols that ask for a quite particular display: with social relations as material, a dance of conformity, the attempted imagining and echoing of expectations.”
L’Impudeur
May 23, 2018
Two transcripts of films by Moyra Davey and Hervé Guibert. ‘Both “Wedding Loop” [2017] and “Modesty, and Immodesty” [1991] frame the daily practice of being and becoming undone by others.
news
February 15, 2017
“it never has been quite so obvious as now…“
F.R.DAVID “Correctional Facility”
November 9, 2020
This 20th issue is edited by Will Holder; paying attention to difference; and transformations between accident⎱design 249
acorn⎱oak 293–94, 297–98
adult⎱child 95, 139, 207, 308
alphabetic⎱postliterary 3
alphabetic⎱postalphabetic 3, 5
alphabetic⎱analphabetic 5…
F.R.DAVID “very good*”
March 2, 2020
…the issue’s “theme” is better off unaccounted for, and up in the air, like a flock of birds (creatures who feature heavily), circling around performance, listening bodies, given time, and loving relations.
F.R.DAVID “Recto Verso”
August 18, 2019
…had its beginnings in prosody, the measure of language, geometry, and a notion of imagist transcription, even. A two-dimensional exercise, it turns out, on paper.…
F.R.DAVID “Black Sun”
February 27, 2019
The issue departs from Wojnarowicz’s grief at the loss of loved ones during the 1980s AIDS crisis, and anger at the US government for their willful neglect of this loss.
F.R.DAVID “what I mean is—”
September 23, 2018
Typographers normally design using other people’s words and eventually accept a situation in which they are limited to making only slight modifications in a given text even when a syntactic rephrasing could make the message more understandable. […]
F.R.DAVID “Flurry”
February 28, 2018
“I realized very slowly over a period of time that the activity of framing a performance and the intentions that accumulate around that activity produce a certain anxious kind of mode, and I became bothered by the flurry of activity and how it tends to mask so many things.”
STAPLES!
January 9, 2017
This book proposes that description is one way to design, reproduce and enable access to things. Between October 2016 and December 2017, Will Holder will recall and describe hundreds of tiny material decisions made in response to a specific context of past collaborators’ work.
F.R.DAVID ‘Inverted Commas’
January 10, 2017
The 13th issue of F.R.DAVID is edited with Riet Wijnen, and has its origins in her Registry of Pseudonyms, an online database which accounts for who is who and why who is who. ‘Inverted Commas’ follows ‘pseudonym’ through names, naming, bodies, brains, self, author, other, reader, labour.
F.R.DAVID “Recognition”
September 21, 2017
This 14th issue is concerned with bodies, ecology, empathy, gazing at the world, and reading (environments) from non-anthropocentric POVs—nonetheless described and written by humans. Animals, birds, and trees feature heavily.
Back issues of F.R.DAVID
June 23, 2017
Thanks to the generosity of de Appel, Amsterdam, we can offer you these back issues of F.R.DAVID