Five doors into the project: who's behind it, the fictional people who raised her, the live catalog itself, the materials for writing about it, and the home base where the work is made.
ABOUT THE BUILDER
Victoria Mansberger Schoen (@averagegrades) — strategist, systems thinker, and operator of The Means of Production. Maps, not categories. Constellations, not trees.
ANCESTORS — THE CONSOLE TELEVISION
Every founder story begins before the founding. A working eighties console television, tuned to the fictional characters who raised the builder — the first machinery of the real, and what it installed.
FOUNDER MYTHS — LIVE CATALOG ↗
The interactive Founder Myths app: the running inventory of startup origin stories, hero myths, disruption scripts, and the venture folklore that functions as infrastructure.
PRESS KIT
The Means of Production press resources — overview, background, contact, and materials for journalists, editors, and collaborators writing about the work.
KALAMAZOO
Home base for the project — Kalamazoo, Michigan, where The Means of Production is written, edited, and run. The Upjohn ground, the Friable Compact, and the pages the work is made from, indexed in one place.