Full-page layout of The Non-Standard, Vol. 1, No. 2 (August 10, 2025), a weekly paper for experimentation in the materialisms of the present. The masthead features a black lowercase “the” and “standard,” with “non-” in bold red and black letters and an offset orange “a.” Three columns of text follow: 1. “Difference’s Rainbow” by grace grace grace — Reflecting on Alfred North Whitehead, the bifurcation of nature, and the plural perception of rainbows as a refusal of the fiction that the world is finished. Emphasizes values, feelings, and the political inheritance of wonder. 2. “What Survives AI Talk?” by Mira Petrillo — Drawing on Vilém Flusser, explores word inflation, the noise of accelerated speech, and the fragility of language’s capacity to move, connect, and shape the world. Considers how grace and human relation persist amid AI-mediated communication. 3. “On Non-Journalism” by Jacob Henry Leveton — Introducing François Laruelle’s city–nature–cosmos triad and the concept of determination-in-the-last-instance. Defines non-journalism as inhabiting the weave of the Real, tracing events where shared reasoning meets ecological relations, and tending the ever-living fire toward collective futures. Serif headlines, justified text blocks, and footnotes throughout. The aesthetic is minimalist, emphasizing clarity and typographic precision.
The Non-Standard issue 2, my new Sunday digital newspaper.
Thinking with grace grace grace, Mira Pertillo, and myself about rainbows, word inflation and AI, and Laruelle.
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