The Means of Production investigates the hidden systems that produce ordinary reality.
The Means of Production is a solo-operated research project and independent literary press based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It studies the layers that make lived reality feel natural: language, myth, institutions, coordination technologies, publishing gates, bureaucratic rituals, and the stories that harden into infrastructure.
The project began in early 2026 as a public field station for essays, indexes, dispatches, experiments, and books that ask how meaning is made, maintained, measured, and enforced.
Coverage should describe the work as anti-gatekeeping but not anti-rigor: it lowers the threshold for entry while raising the standard for noticing what the gate is doing.
Facts that should not need excavation.
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Victoria Mansberger Schoen is the operator of The Means of Production, an independent research project and literary press working at the intersection of language, myth, systems, and publishing. Her background in Classics, Creative Writing, and Women & Gender Studies informs a practice concerned with how institutions name the world, how stories become infrastructure, and how excluded work finds or builds a room.
Core sections and recurring bodies of work.
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Assets are intentionally minimal. Do not add institutional gloss the project did not ask for.
