CATALOGUE · in production
Take a look at what we’ve been producing.
A preview: you’re reading V.001 — the full catalogue arrives with V.002. Below, a glimpse of the slate. New works announced staggered, when it’s their time in the sun.
ON THE SLATE · the first accessions
Indigenous robots v Silicon Valley robots — an animated series on politics and law in future deep time
Staged guerrilla detonations in the City of London
An exhibit of fifty-two different designs of goo and the metaphors they stand for
An anthology of genre-craft and worldbuilding — the Knowledge Design Lab, made public
A piece of creative tech we call the Alt-CINDEX, which measures the life and soul of an idea, rather than its metric impact
These are some of the first accessions — the rest arrive in staggered drops, announced as each is ready.
SPEC. 001 · ANIMATED POLITICAL-TECH ANTHOLOGY SERIES
Political Fictions
SPEC. 002 · CITY-SCALE GUERRILLA PUBLISHING × PERFORMANCE ART
Future Detonations, I–III
SPEC. 003 · EPISTEMOLOGICAL LONG-FORM FICTION × GEOPOLITICAL SATIRE
Postgraduate Admissions
This one has a story to it. READ THE LORE →
SPEC. 004 · CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY
The Alt-CINDEX →
SPEC. 005 · EXHIBITION × LIVE PEDAGOGY
The Goo Design Lab →
SPEC. 006 · WORLDBUILDING MANUAL × GENRE ENGINEERING
The Uncommon Future Anthology →
THE UNCOMMON FUTURE PLAYER · arrives in V.002
The moving-image works get a theatre of their own.
The catalogue’s films and series need a home that isn’t a page. We’re building it. Behind this text is the working sketch — it switches on with the first releases.
ACCESSION · the catalogue grows in public
How this room fills.
Selected submissions
Works chosen through the submissions portal are accessioned into the permanent catalogue — copyright stays with the maker. The round is open now.
SUBMIT WORK → EDITORIAL GUIDELINES →The 2027 programme
The public programme feeds the catalogue directly: the anthology, the exhibition, and the strongest participant work.
THE LAB →UFP originals
Our own films, editions and instruments, released in staggered drops. Transmissions hears first.
THE RATIONALE · IN PUBLIC
Why do we launch staggered?
So the alternative doesn’t remain artificial.
The doctrine calls the journal article a form inherited from the vision of salesmen, not intellectuals. It wasn’t designed in the real sense; it was arrived at by contingency. A catalogue that arrived complete on launch day would repeat the mistake: one more top-down decree about what the alternative looks like. So this one grows in public, accession by accession, through the portals and the Lab. That is what staggered launching is for.
THE CRITERIA · know them before the portals
For our editorial priorities — what we accession, and why — read what we publish.
The list grows by accession. The inaugural round is open.