Publishing Guild 25-26

As a Publishing Guild, we understand the text – and its multiple forms – as a body that dialogues with a network of experiences. In this textual fabric, the body is not an isolated component, but an active presence that recreates, creates tension, and assumes an active role throughout the entire process.

From this perspective, we question the normalisation of texts, archives, and hegemonic narratives that see editing and publishing as an element external to textualisation. On the contrary, we intend to position the text and the body as the centre, exploring and expanding processes of collective and self-publishing that do not necessarily respond to punitive or annulment spaces.

Likewise, we think about how dirty it is: that unknown space of editing, that stage of the journey in which doubts, possibilities, unfinished ideas and those that dialogue with other times and other forms coexist. We maintain that the publishing process is not limited to producing books or publications; rather, we propose expanding the definition, prioritising processes over products, beyond their technical or strictly “editorial” dimension. 

We consider editing and publishing as a critical, situated, and collective practice: a space for reflection and support.

David Coñomán Romero, Lourdes Gay-Punzano and Mercedes Saya Rosés