€3.50/month
(1) Automatically receive every new publication by Becoming Press in a digital format of your choice, as soon as they are available, and for as long as the subscription remains active.
(2) We will also give you 3 e-books ("Technically Man Dwells Upon this Earth", "Affects & Dreams: a manual for Becoming" and "Issue Two") directly upon subscription.
[Why we are trialing these programs]
We are introducing some new ways to try and circulate our works and our words, and to address an obvious problem in the literary world—the economy. Books can't be free, and shipping is more expensive than ever.
We take this opportunity to remind ourselves that, while 'the production of commodities' is to no small degree analogous with 'bookmaking'—when it comes to private accumulation and exocapitalist time-dilation techniques, books and records perhaps answer only to software—there is a lot more to literature than bookselling and cover design. We want to believe that people find the books we publish meaningful, we hope that our works can, at the least, console, if not convince. We are of the romantic tradition that believes that theory—[something]—is in direct contact with anything that we conventionally deem more "real" than "theory", and that words really matter...
To Yuk Hui and his cosmotechnicians, worlds are entangled with technology which is entangled with language; to the righteous Rasheeda Philips, sound produces spacetime, and "words are the weapons to destroy the old world (and build a new)"; to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, publishing and the mobilisation of literary flows is the very scaffolding needed to build these new worlds from the outside. Control over literary flows is how hegemonies consolidate—whether God is the word and spelling is magic, or whether renegade publishing introduces friction into the machinations of control... either way... language is the source of all our problems, but it is the solution to all of them, too.
We are, as such, devoting time to figuring out how to bring more people in and remove as much 'red tape' as possible. Becoming-Earth / Unearthing Becoming is how we started 2026, a project dedicated to feeding our different publications back into each other, so that these ideas can become a world that is inviting, alluring and stable and comforting—a world we can find ourselves in, or become ourselves in. Another part of this endeavour involves actively trying to establish new forms of accessibility.
"Setting up a subscription program" isn't an act of grace, nor is it even noteworthy, per se—we certainly do not believe that our publishing activities are an end in themselves that people should queue up to sustain—publishing is just the scaffold. Yet our project has grown a lot since it started, it has grown to mean a lot to a lot of people, and we owe it to the community who helped us find our way to keep in touch with people's needs, and with the larger, political polycrises that surround every act of reading and writing. Music, Television and Theory saved our lives—it's the garden in which we frolic, but there are very real and important reasons why both books and theory can feel the opposite of 'enchanting' and 'safe'—we have ourselves lived for decades, unable to buy books; we lived far away, in tiny economies where you must work 10+ hours just to import a print-on-demand copy of Cannibal Metaphysics. So we are not doing anything new by experimenting with new ways of operating—instead we are just trying to catch up, as we are so small, and so behind in the digital techniques of communication and connection.
This announcement says nothing about what the subscription offers, because we feel that it is ultimately banal—it's a book subscription, and we're doing this as a simple attempt to get with the program, to make our books as cheap and easy to access as possible, and to excise those lingering voices that constantly dissuade us from leaving our comfort zone.