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Verónica Stedile Luna
Editorial Writings from a Scalar Perspective
Reduction and Expansion as Publishing Procedures
Can a series of small-scale artistic publishing projects provide insight into the conditions of contemporary large-scale publishing? Building on this question, this essay analyses a series of recent Latin American artistic publishing projects that develop scalar operations of expansion and reduction in relation both to the book as a material format and to writing itself. Through procedures involving enlargement and miniaturisation, excess and scarcity, the works produced by Oficina Perambulante and DocumentA/Escénicas, as well as the publication work Líneas Móviles, can be understood as active responses to contemporary conditions of overproduction and destruction in the publishing industry.
Keywords: expansion; reduction; procedures; format; writing; artistic publishing projects
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Editorial Writings from a Scalar Perspective
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Reduction and Expansion as Publishing Procedures
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Verónica Stedile Luna
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Can a series of small-scale artistic publishing projects provide insight into the conditions of contemporary large-scale publishing? Building on this question, this essay analyses a series of recent Latin American artistic publishing projects that develop scalar operations of expansion and reduction in relation both to the book as a material format and to writing itself. Through procedures involving enlargement and miniaturisation, excess and scarcity, the works produced by Oficina Perambulante and DocumentA/Escénicas, as well as the publication work Líneas Móviles, can be understood as active responses to contemporary conditions of overproduction and destruction in the publishing industry.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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November 24, 2026
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expansion
reduction
procedures
format
writing
artistic publishing projects
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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453
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483
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Scale: New Critical Essays, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Marietta Kesting, Cultural Inquiry, 40 (ICI Berlin Press, 2026), pp. 453–83
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Publication date: 24 November 2026
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Cite as:
Verónica Stedile Luna, ‘Editorial Writings from a Scalar Perspective: Reduction and Expansion as Publishing Procedures’, in Scale: New Critical Essays, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Marietta Kesting, Cultural Inquiry, 40 (ICI Berlin Press, 2026), pp. 453-83 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-40_vsl>