Why subscribe?

SP&EX is a publication about space and experience in the Age of Digital Reproduction.

What does this mean?

Walter Benjamin heralded the arrival of a new order of art, politics and culture determined by the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Printing presses, newspapers, radio and lithographs convened to change the ways that meaning is made.

The Age of Digital Reproduction—zero distribution costs—refactors things again.

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times
very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was
insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our
techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and
habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are
impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts there is a
physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to
be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. For
the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was
from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations to transform the
entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and
perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.”

Paul Valéry, PIÈCES SUR L’ART