
05/03/2025
Announcing the publication of AMODERN 12: COUNTERTYPE, edited by Andrew Amstutz:
https://amodern.net/issues/amodern-12-countertype/
The issue features the following contributions:
Amodern 12: Countertype
Typography, Alternative Print Technologies, and Everyday Ephemera
Andrew Amstutz
The Subversive Print Nianhua
Haihong Li
A Truly Modern Media
Avant-garde Visual Culture and the Printed Character in the 1930s Shanghai Pictorial Magazine 時代漫畫 Modern Sketch
Kelly W.S. Ritter
The Lead Letters of Nasta’līq
Experiments with Movable Type and Debates over Modernity in Hyderabad
Andrew Amstutz
The Most Important Book Never Written
A Media History of Saul Kripke’s Scholarly Samizdat
Margie Borschke
Unreasonable Characters
Tyler Shoemaker
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Many thanks, first of all, to the editor and contributors for their excellent work in this issue, and to the Amodern community for reading and engaging with this work in review and in their research. An additional thanks to artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer for allowing Amodern to use documentation from his immersive typographical work “Encode/Decode” (2020) to image this issue.