01Etiquette
Volume I, Issue 1
Etiquette of being remembered
A short, dry guide to what we remember, how we remember, and how to ask us to forget.
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Notes from the schedule.
A slow publication about the practice of making plans, unmaking them, writing properly and remembering what mattered without pretending to have more history than we do.
The editorial desk
Not a company blog.
The journal is a public shelf for short pieces: chapter reports, correspondence extracts, etiquette, archive notes and explanations of optional services. It is not a feed of invented member stories, operating statistics or endorsements. New issues arrive slowly, when there is something worth putting on paper.
Issue 01 / contents
The first dispatches.
02Notes
Volume I, Issue 1
A short history of the cancelled engagement
The institution of the cancelled plan is older than us, and we take it seriously.
Editorial note / prepared03Chapter report
Volume I, Issue 1
Chapter letters: Melbourne
Notes from the opening chapter. The weather. The locations. The envelopes.
Editorial note / prepared04Correspondence
Volume I, Issue 1
What an invitation actually looks like
A walk-through of one ordinary invitation and its matching cancellation. The same form, twice.
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Volume I, Issue 1
Manufactured commitments, explained
What it is. What it isn't. Why the cancellation is part of the work.
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Volume I, Issue 1
Gifts and the question of surprise
On the difference between a thoughtful gift and a surprise someone had to guess about.
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