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Becoming-Earth/
Unearthing Becoming
Unearthing Becoming
An editorial framework for Becoming Press, 2026
The heart of Becoming is its editorial spiral, which has passed through many phases. We began, back in 2021, talking about Negativism, which evolved into the set of three terms which you would have seen written on the first version of our website: Queer Cynicism, Quantum Sociology, and Non-Theory. As the project evolves over time, these terms which guide our practices and signal our interests evolve, too. At some point, that star had imploded into non-Materialism. Even this, has now changed. What does it mean to be a materialist or idealist today, when we might be tempted to now say that ideas are materials, or when people speak of a transcendental materialism or an immanent idealism?
Becoming Press has been through a lot of changes in the last year, our little contraption has grown more resilient under pressure, and unexpected accelerations have driven us into territory we are not familiar with. In this moment, as we look out over the coming year like an uncharted valley, our anxious hand reaches out to hold onto something meaningful, to clasp at a sigil in consolation. A period of existential speculation on what exactly it is we are doing here, an annual habit that dates back to the first texts we ever published, lead to a lot of reading and a lot of new ideas about the role publishing and literature has in the reanimation of the future.
We started to see literature as the very ground we stand upon, the ground into which we plant ideas to incubate, sediment into protocols which become the world itself. For all the externalization, there is unimaginable amounts of digging, all the materials used on the surface world are pulled from under our feet, pulled from the residue of history that is compressed into fuel under its own weight.
Publishing, the role Becoming Press attempts to play, is a form of
, 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