Search & Discovery Zines
Imaginative works that prompt the reader to explore—and to re-envision, re-audition, re-smell, feel again, or taste anew the city you thought you knew.
DEFIANT DISCOVERY orients the reader’s exploration.
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ECOLOGIES explores terrains aquatic, liminal, infrastructural, mnemonic, mythical, and microscopic.
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SENSING demonstrates that discovery is an exuberantly multimodal affair.
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POETICS exemplifies the aesthetic structures, the play and method, of search.
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Authored by Simi Best, Andrew Blackwell, Caiti Borruso, Brendan Crain, Kassidi Shuron Jones, Kelly Karst, Fanny Krivoy, Vân Anh Lê, Mina Leazer, anna y lin, Shannon Mattern, Alexandra Nicome, Xinan Helen Ran, Karly Wildenhaus, and Holly Wilson
Edited by Shannon Mattern and Becca Quon
Designed by zoë pulley
Edition of 200
In the collections of:
– Bard College
– The Cybernetics Library
– Pratt Institute
Search & Discovery: Cross-Reference Chronicles Vol. 02 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International 4.0 License.
Print copies will be freely available upon request through October 30, 2026. METRO member institutions and other collecting institutions will receive priority, and remaining copies will be distributed to those who express interest as supplies allow. Please request a copy here. (Limit one per institution or individual.)
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