Assembly by Jake Tobin

$15
Natural paper, 24 pages, 8 x 10 inches

In Assembly, across nearly two dozen psychoschematic diagrams, Jake Tobin welds together an astounding new visual idiolect from military industrial slag, advertising runoff, and parapolitical slough to create an amalgamated catalogue of chthonic enterprise. With its combination of triadic semiotics and easy-to-follow instructions, Assembly is the essential reference document for those navigating the infohazard-laden landscape of hypermediation.

Assembly scripts Aaronet’s chronophage tendencies for the to-do list micromanager seeded in every macchiato-guzzling cenobite that eggplant-reacts to increasingly paranoid Slack DMs scryated through a Xerox filter labyrinth of homunculi-funded international shipping platforms; in short, the mass majority of us inclined, jaggedly, toward chemohazard dithering, “rigidity criteria,” Peppa Pig-turned-toroid biomass, Credit Karma-infused metallurgical almanac systems, and axle grease sputum pockmarking the all-caps patent for a hex-wrenched necroindustrial Uline catalog that dually serves as an ‘indestructo’ doorstop and a dumbwaiter-cum-internal combustion engine. Void fill never felt so gusseted, trammeled, or scrap compliant.

- Barrett White