Originally published in 1927, Russian painter Kazimir Malevich’s book The Non-Objective World delineates his vision that the best art values, above everything else, the “supremacy of pure feeling.” According to Malevich there are “[t]wo basic types of creation [that] can be distinguished: one, initiated by the conscious mind, serves practical life, so-called, and deals with concrete visual phenomena; the other, stemming from the subconscious or superconscious mind, stands apart from all “practical utility” and treats abstract visual phenomena.”

As editors in putting this issue together Malevich’s maxims became our own. We sought work that seemed to challenge us in multiple ways, ways that we couldn’t have predicted prior to reading. Included herein are novel excerpts and essays, poems, runes and translations. Our hope in including such a wide variety of work is that it speaks to Fonograf’s own multifarious nature. What we like is entirely tempered by what we can hear and see and feel.