This was our first production. From experience we knew that drawing initial interest in the project and finding the right collaborators was something easier done once something already exists. Claire Elise, who went by niko mas at the time, effectively underwrote this "ghost issue", an issue zero, a hysterical gesture. It worked, in a way, because people began submitting work, enough, just about, to prompt a turn towards thinking about Becoming as an online magazine. 

Within Issue Zero, there is a general attempt to do what Deleuze would call contouring, creating a territory through incisions, in whatever form that seemed feasible. There are some reviews, some elaborations, some histories, case studies, an interview with the now late-Achim Szepanski, which is a funny text in of itself, possibly one of the worst interviews ever, but significant all the same. A lot of ground is covered, and there is a lot going on here, and its contents are arranged according to an almost proto-CoreCore logic: a fast sequence of familial but somehow distant voices, themes, frameworks. 

CONTENTS:

• Abstract: Editor's Letter
• Speaking-Becoming
• Publishing Anything in the Age of Capitalist Doom: Why Bother?
• Avatar: The Legend of Neoliberalism
• Netflix Mafia: Streaming Hegemony in 4K
• The Get Down (2016): Hip-Hop, Electronic Music & the Struggle of NYC
• Why do they call him Grandmaster Flash?
• Modulations (1998): Flashback from Rave Culture
• The Men I (Don't) Trust: How to sell brunch
• Retromania (2010): Nostalgia & Capitalism
• Sun Ra: The Living Myth
• Princess Nokia: Gemini Feminism
• Andre 3000: the best solo album never written
• Ultrablack Feature: Mille Plateaux
• Ultrablack Feature: Interview with Achim Szepanski
• Robert Barry's Time Machine: A Review of Music of the Future (2017)
• A Sun Rises in Romania: Admiring the Sun(rise Hub)
• NFTs: No F***ing Thanks
  
  

DETAILS:

• Author(s): Claire Elise, Polymnia, & George Rallis
• Editor: Claire Elise
• Cat^NO: M0
• 16.5x24cm, 105 pages
• ISSN: 2672-8818 (print)
• ISSN: 2672-8826 (online)
• Released: December 2021
• Printed and Produced by Becoming in Cyprus