Independent Publisher ✱ Minor Theoretical Literature ✱ Berlin/Nicosia
✱ about
We held out for as long as we could to gather as many friends and collaborators as possible, but time is up, the horizon is upon us. This coming September, Becoming Press is celebrating the release of their 10th book, with a conference in Venice, Italy, or, as we would say back in Cyprus—“Πάμε Βενετία!”; let's go to Venice.
Unable to simply sit and rest in the sun, we have organised a series of events that are somewhere between lectures and hang-outs, featuring a surprising amount of Becoming Press’ authors and collaborators, including Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Alessandro Sbordoni, Christian Nirvana Damato, MeltdownYourBooks (sort of), Marek Poliks, Roberto Alonso Trillo, Alberto Ricca, and your hosts, Polymnia & Claire. This event is supported by our media partners bruno & Inactual Magazine, who have been indispensable in the planning of this event.
✱ The intention is to film all of these (mono/dia/audio/anono-)logues, and to present them at a later date online, as a conference series and as a documentary. All the events are free, but as we are filming everything, we ask that you please inform us directly if you do not wish to be deliberately or incidentally included in these videos.
✱ program
Session 1: Unconscious/TheorisingThursday 11th September, 16:00 – 19:00
Dedicated to our 8th book, Unconscious/Television (2025), our first gathering brings together three theorists whose work revolves around the body, either in terms of biology and organic chemistry, neuroscience and sensory experience, or psychoanalysis and the unconscious(es).
After two unorthodox and enigmatic introductory monologues, we settle in for a special session from Lucas Ferraço Nassif which unravels the dualism of mind and body until it reveals itself to be a möbius strip.
16:00Living Pleasures and Dying Exaltations
MeltdownYourBooks
Anonologue
16:30Mythopoiesis of the Retrograde Prometheus
Christian Nirvana Damato
Monologue
17:00Death-Images &
Schizo-Cogitos
Lucas Ferraço Nassif
Dialogue
Session 2: Multiplication of the End(s)Friday 12th September, 18:00 – 20:00
Our second gathering is dedicated to our 9th book, Multiplication of Organs Manifesto (2025), and thus begins with a presentation of the book by the author Christian Nirvana Damato.
Courtesy of bruno, we then move into a Q&A session, mediated by Davide Tolfo, with the book’s author, who is joined by Alessandro Sbordoni, a very close collaborator of Becoming, theorist and author of our 6th book, Semiotics of the End (2024).
✱ This event is in Italian.
18:00Multiplication of Organs Manifesto
Christian Nirvana Damato
Book Presentation
18:30Davide Tolfo in conversation with
Alessandro Sbordoni &
Christian Nirvana Damato
Trialogue
Session 3: [IMMATERIAL SYSTEMS]Saturday 13th September, 16:00 – 19:00
Saturday is a behind-the-scenes day, as we are recording several special segments, including an experimental, live podcast session with Disintegrator, as well as a presentation from Alessandro Sbordoni and a rare moment with a beloved musician, Bienoise.
16:00Immediacy: The Bias of Information
Alessandro Sbordoni
Monologue
17:00Disintegrator [LIVE]
Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo
Dialogue
18:00Whose voice is your voice?
Alberto Ricca a.k.a Bienoise
Audiologue
Intermission: Open SecretSunday 14th September, 18:00 – 22:15
We have organised another edition of Open Secret, a touring audiovisual circus that hosts film screenings all around the world. There is always the temptation to categorize the films which Open Secret screens as “Internet Cinema”, in terms of their aesthetics and their inner-workings, although the term seems more like a beach ball than a philosophical category—absolutely love that.
Maybe the films are internet cinema, maybe the internet cinema is what Open Secret brings to town—or maybe, the real internet cinema is the friends you make along the way.
18:00Doors Open
18:40
Introduction: What on Earth is an Internet Cinema?
19:00
Open Secret: Act I
20:00
Interlude
20:15
Open Secret: Act II
21:15
Hang-out
Session 4: ExocapitalismMonday 15th September, 18:00 – 20:30
Wrapping up our conference is a session dedicated to Exocapitalism (2025), our 10th and most recent book, a milestone in our practice as a publishing house.
Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo are two very unique theorists, and their podcast, Disintegrator, is being heralded as the leading home for discourse on artificial intelligence, contemporary philosophy and economic theory, and the internet.
18:00Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits
Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo
Book Presentation
20:00Closing remarks from the Publisher
Palais Sinclaire