The Postal System & Digital Circulation

Tuesday October 21, 2025, 12-1 p.m.
The Bureau for Experimental Ethnography’s focus on expanded publishing began this fall by reading and discussing Marc Fischer’s zine, “Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?” On October 21, 2025, the Bureau has invited Fischer to give a presentation on his experience making and distributing zines.

A Zoom event with special guest Marc Fischer: [https://utexas.zoom.us/j/81992998120]

Marc Fischer is the administrator of Public Collectors, an initiative he formed in 2007. Public Collectors aims to encourage greater access and scholarship for marginal cultural materials, particularly those that museums ignore. Public Collectors’ work includes the Library Excavations publication series and web project, Hardcore Architecture—a blog and publication series about where people in punk bands lived, the Courtroom Artist Residency Program, and Quaranzine—which produced 100 single page publications with over 75 collaborators at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to Quaranzine, Public Collectors has produced over 100 publications. Fischer is also a member of the group Temporary Services (founded in 1998) and a partner in its publishing imprint Half Letter Press (ongoing since 2008). He is based in Chicago. www.publiccollectors.org, www.temporaryservices.org, www.halfletterpress.com.

Presented as part of the Bureau for Experimental Ethnography’s multiyear focus on expanded publishing, with support from the Humanities Institute.