Becoming Press
Becoming Press remains the primary publishing arm of Becoming. It is an entropic publishing practice that has become more complex since it started, and as such, it has taken steps in a particular direction that is hard to reverse; Becoming has a will of its own, and it has, for now, chosen its way.
It is a publishing practice that has taken negativity as its subject, attempting to produce a kind of theoretical literature that is able to say and do what only a truly independent publishing house can do.
(un)Becoming
The (un)Becoming imprint is the negentropic counterflow of Becoming Press, involving a different approach to publishing theory. Sharp manifests and compact digests. Rapid circulation of texts relevant to the moment they are written, sold and distributed as affordably as possible.
(un)Becoming differs in approach, seeking to develop a kind of theoretical literature that is unique to our publishing house, by seeking to create something that sits at a temporal midpoint between a book and a social media story.
This imprint is expected to open in August 2026. Website coming soon.
THALASSA
We hadn’t expected people to send us novels; we didn’t know what to do with them. Yet, we liked them, and couldn’t let them go. Fiction is a different world, with a different audience, different sensibilities. Becoming Press started printing books because of a submission that we couldn’t imagine saying no to, even if it meant learning how to produce a book, get an ISBN, and learn how international mail works. In much the same spirit, the opportunity to be the publisher of some fiction or theory-fiction works that were proposed to us, has set in motion the opening of a pubilshing arm for these works.
The name Thalassa is partly inspired by our love for telling stories about our memories of dwelling on the island of Aphrodite (and beyond that, telling stories about our past lives as oceanic creatures yet to walk upon the land) and partly by the importance to which we hold the sentiment of Ferenczi’s conceptualisation of the Thalassa as the collective memory of all previous forms of life, an infinite spiral of shared unconsciouses. Worlds are made of stories, and each story is its own world.
This imprint is expected to open in early 2027.
α:SMR
In 2026, we were offered the opportunity to collaborate with The School of Materialist Research (SMR) for a small-scale publishing imprint that would involve a couple of books a year, that would allow SMR to engage in editorial projects as a part of their summer schools and their general online curricula, as well as circulate these ideas in the form of collective writings, volumes and transcripts.
There is an alignment between the inter-institutional model of SMR and the D.I.Y. ethos of Becoming Press, in that both are arguably para-academic forces that seek to create new networks and operating chains that are independently managed. It is also fair to say that there are a great deal of theorists and philosophers involved in SMR that are extremely relevant to Becoming Press’ editorial interests and political motivations, from Thomas Nail, to Cecile Malaspina, Katerina Kolozova. That we both see materialism as a way to exit the “arrogance of philosophy” by embracing the “hard-working ethic of the natural sciences” is an ideal ground for an editorial collaboration. Let’s see what becomes of this.
This imprint is expected to open late-2026.
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