“Civilization is an occasional broadsheet newspaper founded in New York in 2018 by Richard Turley, Lucas Mascatello and Mia Kerin,” reads an email from Turley. “What began as a personal project about living in the city gradually morphed into an art project probing how language (messy, overheard, interrupted, charged) is used and experienced in public and private spaces. Its content emerged from secretly recorded moments and conversations on cell phones at parties, offices, sidewalks and subways, powered by the arrival of low-cost transcription software that enabled rapid capture and remixing. This process lent Civilization its distinctive rhythm, density and immediacy.”
When I first wrote about Civilization in 2018, this gargantuan broadsheet newspaper was what New York Magazine called a “jumbo-sized, black-and-yellow paper … anachronistically heavy on text, to the point that it’s hard to take in all of the information on a single sheet. The design is intricate and playful, punctuating the pages with cartoons, mini feature boxes, and lists.” It was also very readable, if you invested the time”.
“Before most others, the publication experimented with AI, feeding earlier issues into primitive large-language models to generate new content, making it one of the first to treat machine learning as a creative collaborator,” adds Turley.
Civilization #7 is now available in a newsprint edition of 1,000 from Printed Matter, Magculture and Public Knowledge Books. (The brand also has a radio show on NTS and has produced small editions, T-shirts, posters, and collaborated with brands including Calvin Klein and Junya Watanabe, embedding the publication’s conversational textures into fashion.)
A preview of the new installment appears below …
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