Becoming entered the world through the foam that forms on the surface of agitated waters, and so—thusly mirroring the birth of Venus—Becoming Press was born in Cyprus. It started as a side-project, a magazine to be published by Crossdressing Diogenes, but it quickly exceeded its own limits and began to distinguish itself, devouring its host in the process. Alongside the idea of the magazine, Becoming developed into a platform for publishing essays and articles online, which it did for 18-months, until a single, substantial submission over-coded the machine: a text was gifted to Becoming that was so touching, and so well timed, that Becoming pursued the not-unsubstantial task of learning how to publish texts physically, and how to distribute them; and so Becoming Magazine became Becoming Press. At some point, Becoming spawned a record label, Eternal/Return, which was in a way an inevitability, yet nonetheless auspicious, as it marked the perfect inversion, from a record label which also produced texts, to a publisher which also produces music.