{"id":11870,"date":"2010-06-16T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2601"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:21:09","slug":"review-of-monochrom-26-34-published-by-neural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/review-of-monochrom-26-34-published-by-neural\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of monochrom #26-34 published by &#8216;Neural&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah! A review, publish on the page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neural.it\">Neural<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality<\/p>\n<p>Printing a 500-page book using the look and feel of a nineties xeroxed fanzine, with an impressive number of essays is a clear statement in 2010. This is not meant to be an outrageously expensive art book for collectors, nor a sleek coffee table book to be flipped through in an alternative club. It is instead an overstuffed repository of underground culture (they&#8217;re ironically defining it &#8220;in telephone book format&#8221;), in the same form monochrom collective used to make their homonymous zine. Monochrom was a visionary zine printed in the nineties one issue at time with a reasonable amount of pages. As with similar publishing efforts, like the US-based zine &#8220;Iron Feather Journal&#8221; they helped to introduce the readers to the underground &#8220;cyberculture.&#8221; B<span class=\"citation-50 citation-51 citation-end-51\">ut this book is not at all about nostalgia, it is thoroughly contemporary. Creating a different graphic layout for every article, it is even reinforcing the concept that it&#8217;s not monographic at all. Monochrom has always distinguished itself for its heterogeneity of topics. H<\/span><span class=\"citation-50 citation-end-50\">ere they range as usual from politics to science fiction, from sex to sociology, from pop to modern history, and from sex to film criticism. A few titles (there&#8217;s no page numbering and so no<\/span> index) are: &#8220;A pilot study on the philosophy of life of schizophrenics&#8221;, &#8220;The cultural mechanics of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ampersandla.com\/\">bitcoin casino fast payout<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;Hacking the Spaces&#8221;, &#8220;Urban foraging as resistance&#8221;, &#8220;Existential game-show experiments&#8221;, &#8220;An (anti)history of Rave&#8221;, etc\u2026 Ideally grouping nine issues, this book i<span class=\"citation-48 citation-49 citation-end-49\">s a cornucopia of stimulating content, hard to find anywhere else.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neural.it\/art\/2010\/06\/various_editors_monochrom_2634.phtml\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah! A review, publish on the page of Neural. monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality Printing a 500-page book using the look and feel of a nineties xeroxed fanzine, with an impressive number of essays is a clear statement in 2010. This is not meant to be an outrageously expensive art book for collectors, nor a &#8230; <a title=\"Review of monochrom #26-34 published by &#8216;Neural&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/review-of-monochrom-26-34-published-by-neural\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-11870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","tag-mono","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13409,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11870\/revisions\/13409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}