Six doors into the project: who's behind it, the fictional people who raised her, the mythology written about her in the same register this page catalogs, the 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.
MYTHS OF THE FOUNDER
The other direction. This page catalogs the founder myth as a genre — the script capital reads from. That one runs the script on its own founder: a spiral galaxy filed into Michigan by a bureaucratic error in 1981, declassified from the Nasty Voyeur 2 archives. A catalog written from inside the thing it catalogs, which is the only place anyone has ever written one from.
CAPITAL IS NOT GENIUS — THE CATALOG
The founder myths themselves: the garage, the dropout, the napkin, the pivot. What each scene tells, what it leaves out, and which conversion it performs, whether capital into genius or risk into destiny.
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.