The Means of Production is an independent research project and literary press — infrastructure for myth deprogramming. We map, expose, and dismantle the operative myths that structure capitalist reality. None of it runs on grants or ad revenue. It runs on readers.
A contribution isn't a tip jar. It's a stake in the machinery.
THE MACHINERY, ITEMIZED
Not a mission statement. These are the parts of the building that cost money to keep standing, each one something you can walk into.
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The call, with no fees
The Submission Fetish charges no submission fee and no reading fee, and has no expedited tier. The cost of reading what arrives is carried here instead of by the writer.
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The Archive, published whole
Every piece that enters is printed in full, with all three of its readings beside it, its myth map, and the paths out to the pieces it shares terms with. Nothing behind a paywall, nothing taken down.
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The free instruments
The machine on the front door, the plant floor, the Myth Index, the Royalty Map, the English Department's dials — none of them asks for an account. They run on a paid host, and every page of them is kept with every version of the site.
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A Charter for Kalamazoo
The one instrument on the site that calls a language model. Each charter the Office mints is a paid request.
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The mail
A submission received, a reading filed, a dispatch subscribed to — each answer goes out through a paid mail service.
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The print runs
Four titles out and two forthcoming. A book bought funds the next one.
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The next issue
The Archive surfaces in issues, and the dates are on the Release Calendar. Patronage is what keeps the next date a date.
One of the most direct ways to support is to buy our books through Amazon or your local bookseller. If they don't carry our titles, request them. Every purchase helps fund future print runs and new deprogramming tools.
A live bulletin from the Red Screen Collective. Regular dispatches from the editor, contributors, and guest submissions. Reading is always free.
Paid tiers — monthly, annual, and Member of the Vanguard — directly fund the myth deprogramming engine.
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Patrons may, at the editor's discretion and with their consent, be set into the Subscribers' List of the Colophon — named in the back matter of the machinery itself, the way books printed by subscription named the readers who financed them. Permanent as the repository.
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