Re•mediate Lit Mag

I’m so thrilled to have this work published in @remediatelitmag.bsky.social !

Closing out [MachineWitness] is an ambitious code-animation by Prof. @leoflores.bsky.social, "Tiny Protests: No Kings." The 3-minute animation cycles through movements of emoji as they assemble, interact, and react to events on-screen. Visit remediatelitmag.xyz/issue4 to view the entire sequence!

Parham Ghalamdar's Zine is a remediation of an experimental short film that has shown, won, + semifinaled at a variety of festivals. Ghalamdar's work interrogates the image itself as a supposed source of power in our current political moment, asking what happens to the picture in the face of fire.

re•mediate lit mag — Issue4 A Home for CPU-Assisted Writing

First year being included on the FISH List of Lively Literary Magazines! Check out our new issue remediatelitmag.xyz/issue4

This incredible interface invites you to query multiple comparative translations of lines of poetry in an order + language of your choice. @yalla_halim brings computational writing, machine translation, + Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus' poem "Perambulation in Exile" to your fingertips in [MachineWitness].

In this great Morse piece, D'mani Thomas writes a will and encrypts it in light, in a language spoken over wire by electricity or over air by patterned sound. We hope you'll visit Issue•4 and decode the full work!

Our long fiction piece in this issue, "Playground Vitriol," takes place entirely within a Signal chat. The characters, known only by aliases, use the machine to try to conceal themselves + try to expose + punish others. As texts fly between the users in three acts, fear + power hold hands until…

Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.

With the @chillsubs.bsky.social Best Lit Mags community vote underway (www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...), I just wanted to take a second to spotlight three smaller, underrecognized indie journals/publishers, each of which are passion projects doing really quality work in their own way

One of the ways that [MachineWitness] exploits is by requiring us to consent to be seen in ways we don't know unless we read the Terms of Service. This work in Issue•4 uses one company's TOS as a medium for performance, playing with the text +off of our own [un]familiarity with the document.

Agustín Rosa's close-reading of the smartwatch makes for the perfect anaphoric piece about the sheer amount of ways that a single accessory can track + hack one's body, surroundings, and life. Read it today at remediatelitmag.xyz/issue4!

The process note got us on this one! Nour's short piece is an expression of the horror in AI-generated content, perhaps both literally + figuratively. We get a sense for AI's reach as the machine creates an image from a prompter's mind, which in turn is seared into a viewer's mind + transcribed.

As the year winds down, we'll be featuring each of our recently published pieces from [MachineWitness], beginning with this great critical essay by Cho A. We've also decided to give you a little bit of the process note from each piece (Swipe!!) so that you can see contribs' concepts + technologies!!

Issue•4 of Re•mediate, [MachineWitness], is live! We are so excited to bring you this collection of new work in line with our call for work that "captures capture," that watches our being watched watching.

Subscribe to our Substack to receive the link in your inbox for our Launch Reading, or DM us here/on Instagram for it! We'll post it on our Insta story too : )
Out today, our November Newsletter with a recap of our speedy turnaround process between Subs + Pub Day!
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Gather with us on Saturday to celebrate the launch of MachineWitness! Join editor @pdedgar30.bsky.social and more than half of our contributors to hear and see original work and learn more about the pieces and process notes! DM or subscribe to our Substack to receive the link day-of!

The new issue of Re•mediate comes out this Saturday! Will you join us for a special online reading to kick off? DM us or Subscribe to our Substack to receive the link!

HUGE THANKS TO KATHERINE PARRISH for the discussion we had over email in the lead-up to ELO 2025, and HUGE thanks to Periodicity for publishing our conversation about Computer-assisted writing and re•mediate in two parts!! Visit periodicityjournal.blogspot.com today to read :)

If you haven't read our Substack, you might have missed that we nominate for the Best of the Net, and have nominated our first Volume's contributors to the Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry categories! Which ones are your favorite? Congrats to other of our contributors nominated for the prize, too!

an interview with the editor of Re•mediate about the magazine, about computer-assisted writing and trying to define this, and about the writing/editing life in the age of ai

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*breaks finishing line tape*
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Thank you to everyone who submitted to [MachineWitness]!!

In the meantime, our inbox for letters to the editor / Letters to re•mediate is always open!

Final Call! We're beginning to send out letters, lay out acceptances, and we're getting stoked for the release of our next issue!

Last in this month's transparency download! What's our publishing process like? As we close up our submission queue, what can the authors of accepted work expect from us?

Perhaps the most obvious conceptual prompt we can give a writer in the age of AI is the concept of automatic writing. What about an automatic-written prompt? Is automatic-written code vibe-coding:: automatic writing, vibe-writing? Let us know what you come up with in our subs queue, closing Nov 1!

Continuing our transparency series with the kind of budget we're working with (*laughs in year-old lit-mag run by a PhD student*). One day, we'd love to work with a larger budget and become a paying market, but we want to take every step wisely. Right now, we're just glad to be here!

If you're ever looking for another place to engage with re•mediate, especially when less screen time is healthier, you can keep in touch with us in other places! Track our submission windows in ChillSubs, read our Substack, or read our interviews with Duotrope, New Pages, and @CLMPorg.bsky.social!

Here's another prompt for your consideration! What's lost, or added, when we layer layers of diffusion and composition, tagging and description, back and forth? Our submission window is closing soon, but get experimenting and have something ready either for Issue 4 or for December when we reopen!

Re•mediate values that we receive submissions from all sorts of places, people, and voices. We ask for a positionality statement for several reasons: - We want to get to know our contributors - An author's background bears upon their output An author's positionality statement is never our final deciding factor on whether we take or reject one piece in favor of another. We'll email an author for more information if we're on the fence! But in the case that a text throws a weird light, it's good to know who it's coming from.

Last report we talked about the process notes. This time, we'll address the role positionality statements take in our submissions evaluation process! We're really grateful that the work that is submitted to re•mediate comes from all sorts of folks, and we want to responsibly publish this variety.

Now that we're a year+ old, we reaffirm our mission. Whether cultural writing practices stay the same in resistance or change, we hope our present + future readers will learn something of this moment from the work we publish + the process notes that accompany them.

Send us creative experiments with MACHINE TRANSLATION One example we love: AI Literary Review's recent publication of Matsuo Basho's haiku in "7 Reconstructions," which translates and retranslates the same piece in Issue 5

In our next prompt, explore the different ways to machine-translate that are available within the languages that you're able to understand! Play around with public domain work, or re-re-re-translate your own work. If you only speak English, what other languages could this include— like music?