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"Urgency means prolonging the life of a publication beyond short attention spans, challenging your readers to navigate and interact with content to the network."
- HERE AND NOW? EXPLORATIONS IN URGENT PUBLISHING, p.16

"But before I continue I’m going to get a bit personal, because if we’re going to approach whatever’s urgent — “out there” in the world — I think we have to start at home with our own stories, our own positionality, our own relationships to power and oppression."
- URGENTCRAFT by Paul Soulellis

"Tracking Letters_ is made with a software application that records the timing of keyboard entry. Its primary use is as an email entry program. Using the software, I tracked a week’s worth of my own emails, collecting them into this 168-page book. The 34 correspondences demonstrate the variances in speed, pauses and errors that occur when writing. The book refers to a journal or a small sketchbook, a form that holds the same level of intimacy as personal correspondences."

"The effect cars have on our subconscious can't be measured easily. It can be suggested through poetry in ways. We weave together a society that fails, constantly. Our awareness and disassociation. This association has led us to lead more complicated mesh in our time. In bold, old and gold ways we learn how to be a bit better. We live with each other. Sometimes we don't like each other. Sometimes we do. And cars have a lasting effect on our economy so we respect them."

"This is a book that is not a book. It is just an object trying to escape a world full of objects, maybe becoming alive in a world full of life. It is a learning book. Not an educational one, not for you to learn anything from it, but to learn itself. Nobody knows why it wants to learn, but why should we? It didn’t ask us to be published either. We put my name on it and you can squeeze it, not functional at all. Actually it wanted to be a website, it didn’t succeed …yet."

- Who decides what is urgent and isn't?
- Can you make something urgent for everybody?
- What are the definitions of a publication?

"We always seem to be looking for a new technical solution for knowledge and information storage. We hope there is one magical, final solution, one that will solve every issu But easy solutions create their own problems. The perceived view of the stable nature of digital information differs from reality. There are many points of failure, like old physical formats, lost or non functional machines, companies that go bankrupt, file formats with no support in the future, or changing user licenses. It seems that the more technical the technology gets, the more problems it creates."
- MY HARD-DRIVE DIED ALONG WITH MY HEART by Thomas Walskaar