Civilization #7

Civilization is a 16-page newspaper-format publication that covers the stories of New York. “We want it to feel like spending a day in the city, with fragments of life interrupting you,” says co-founder Richard Turley.”Little scenes playing out, random conversations.”

Civilization #7 is 16 pages of newsprint in black and orange. A semi-sentient system built from words: overloaded, recursive, human, and unmachineable. It uses the old tools of print to channel 21st-century feelings—entrapment, transcendence, loops, mess, belief, and the strange ecstasy of too much. Made in and about New York, Civilization #7 channels the city’s noise into something collective: part oral tradition, part group show, but really about the language we use to survive wherever we are, under whatever spell we’re under.

NYC, 220.75 x 160.5mm, 16 pages, Folded