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Becoming-Earth/
Unearthing Becoming


An editorial framework for Becoming Press, 2026



 For 2026, Becoming Press would like to try, for the first time, to establish a thematic editorial framework within which to situate our practice. In this case, we simply begin by holding these words close at heart throughout the next year, and to place them in the periphery as we work.

As we approach our third solar return, we find ourselves with what feels, for now, to be a stable floor to stand on, and a rare moment to pause and think about the project in an existential way. Are we where we thought we would be? In what ways have we deviated? What are the possibilities which hide in the gaps in-between these realities?




The phrase “Becoming-Earth / Unearthing Becoming” draws on our history of interest in Negativity, the indeterminate core of what we call our “editorial spiral”, and throughout our discussions over the year, we have consistently found ourselves stumbling into the same idea again and again, that of the minor symbolic order. If there were, in theory, a major, hegemonic symbolic context which predetermines the generation of meaning, then there should be countless minor variations out there, buried in the semiotic magma of language. If they are there, then they can be uncovered and decoded as counter-narratives.

The role of the publisher has, for a long time, had a major impact in shaping the flows of literature within which our world coagulates, and yet, nonetheless, anomalies slip through. Sometimes literature entails translating doctrine, sometimes it entails nailing a letter to a door. As a publisher, we are increasingly interested in playing a role in the uncovering, creation, and preservation of these counter-narratives, these constellations of ideas, and ways of thinking about the world. Great art and literature is raised out of the ground by artists and writers, or set free from the marble, brought forth, so to speak, but then it is down to editors and publishers to return literature to the ground, for to be available to extract again. We live in a continuous cycle of digging things up and committing them back to the Earth; Becoming-Earth / Unearthing Becoming. 

We invite you to read the following text, an editorial piece which sets the stage for 2026