data creates

“(...) emphasizing the importance of signs and symbols in our interpretations of reality and more especially the construction of meaning through language, culture and narrative. … increasingly self-conscious about how we construct culture through the symbolic tools of language and narratives. From this perspective, rhetoric is no longer seen as second-order phenomenon, but nowadays has acquired the status of an anthropological fact.”

“Rhetoric is the means in which we ‘describe’ culture, it is also the means with which we ‘create’ culture.”

“Samzine is the creation of a guy named Sam Simmons who has essentially found a way of turning himself into paper. It is a publication that embraces a lot of the same qualities that drew me to fanzine in the first place – it’s personal.”