The Social Life of the Book
Thursday, March 5, 2026 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CET/GMT+1JJK Hall Cafe
Erin Honeycutt will bring the CUTT PRESS archive and speak about the social life of the book, tracing the many ways books have come into being through the press as collaborations and collective acts shaped within and by community. The talk reflects on the politics of publishing and considers how independent publishing practices can unsettle traditional power structures, creating space for marginalized and censored voices. What becomes possible when writers and their communities retain agency over how a work is shaped, read, and sustained?
The event takes place in the framework of Berlin Internship Seminar: Working Cultures, Urban Cultures.
Erin Honeycutt is a writer and bookmaker based in Berlin, where they run CUTT PRESS, a publishing project for pamphlets, poetry, artist books, and reprints. Erin is the author of Dear Enheduanna (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025) and Night School (forthcoming from MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE). Erin co-edits Womanwood, an open-call gazette for queer erotics, and Vortext, a mail-order poetry magazine. Erin has taught across writing and art, including the Radical Publishing seminar at UdK Berlin and Video Art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.
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