Soapbox Journal #6
126 x 195 mm, 306 pages (exposed binding)
Amsterdam, Netherlands (English-language)
Annual
First published 2018
Founders: Zoë Dankert and Laura Pannekoek
Editors-in-chief: Dominika Mikolajczyk and Jakob Henselmans
Designer: Alice Machado and Paolo Barbieri
‘A journal for cultural analysis’
The petit, open access and student-run Soapbox brings together essays, research and critical writing in response to ‘the cultural objects, phenomena, and concepts shaping our world and experiences.’ Fairly text-heavy but always smartly designed, previous issues have explored listening, contamination, interfaces and swamps; this sixth edition is titled ‘On the Uses of Absence.’
Inside, you'll find eleven texts exploring the idea of absence through the lenses of ‘figuration, subjectivity, history and queerness’, with a mix of essays, poetry, autotheory and more, beginning with Benni Ciappini’s experimental take on the ABCs of the Italian language.
Each piece also opens with a graphic motif, abstractions of sound waves extrapolated by the design team from recordings submitted to them by the writers.
Edition of 400.