ΧΘΩΝ / KHTHON

Khthon announces the release of “Katabasis“: a compendium of visual narratives, literary ventures and specialized inquiries for the establishment of a mapping system of infrareality’s agents, ideas and activities. The first issue of Katabasis features interviews with soundscape crafstman Murmer, nomadic sound poet and writer Junkyard Shaman and the frenzied sonic assembleur Blunt Instrument (a.k.a. the illustrator…

“On Disaster” is a fanzine by André Coelho and Manuel João Neto in which the spectres of disaster and its poetical melancholic nature are explored through a visual narrative created from textual cut-ups and image fragments. Invoking Maurice Blanchot, J.G. Ballard, Paul Virilio and other sources, this short comic was originally published in the anthology…

Estamos de momento a trabalhar arduamente nos próximos desastres. We are currently working hard on the next disasters.

A ideia mais comumente associada ao termo “lançamento” parece à primeira vista ser uma de libertação ou largada a um espaço, amplo e aberto, seja no sentido material ou simbólico. Esta visão, vectorizadora do termo numa horizontalidade (X, Y) ou verticalidade ascendente (Z≥0), ignora as inframovimentações e subestratégias do mundo subterraneo.É por isso que criamos…