Telematic people is a phrase used to describe us moderns in Vilém Flusser’s Into the Universe of Technical Images 2011[1985]) that appealed to me while collaborating with Maria Ahmed on a zine we created which was inspired by Flusser’s technical images. Our zine was named In Pursuit of an Apparition, Hands Can Miss the Object (2024); also, Flusser’s words.
Flusser is in vogue today. Attend any talk on machine learning imagery and it’s not long before his name is mentioned. Voices can be heard claiming this or that book by Flusser is overly hopeful or else hopelessly doom-laden. It seems somewhat reductive to read Flusser’s coinage in these binary, fixed terms, as either resolutely utopian or dystopian. Instead, perhaps Flusser expressed a zoomed-out view, one that recognises paradox as unavoidable and complexity as the only foundation, which can be challenging for us myopic creatures who cling (somewhat defensively) to deeply inscribed but parochial human-centric visions of reality. A vision that has long fetishised the fantasy of harmony and which insists on an external observer who (or which) knows ‘the truth’.
The collaboration with Maria marked the beginning of Telematic People Publications, a series of zines and booklets that explore the implicit and unavoidable shifts, rifts, and fractures we are all grappling with, consciously or less so, as our historical human exceptionalism is forced to confront itself in the face of developments across science, technology and beyond.
This project is open to collaboration. Please get in touch – info@sarahjanefield.co.uk.
Zines and booklets prices including postage and packaging within the UK. Please use the link below, or you can pay directly via Revolut or PayPal; email me at info@sarahjanefield.co.uk for a link. If you are ordering from outside the UK or wish to purchase individual prints, please email with your request. Orders are fulfilled by a single busy person, not a machine or a corporation; please allow for between seven and fourteen days for UK deliveries.
Visit sarahjanefield.com to find out more about each of the projects listed below (each is linked to its project page(s)).
Sense & Reason (or The Image of the Human) (2026) £12.00 plus PP
First edition no longer available. Second edition available via Virga Gallery.
157 × 240 mm, 56 pages, 115gsm gloss, full colour, staple-bound. Cover: Racing Green Colorplan 350gsm, black ink.
BHAM💥 The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine (2025/6) £12.00 inc. PP from within the UK
A5, 36 x inner 100 gsm recycled natural pages + 4 cover 300gsm full colour recycled uncoated, staple-bound.
Orpheus in Homebase and Other Images (2025) £15.00 inc. PP from within the UK
157 x 240 mm, 52 inner pages, 100gsm x gloss full colour + 4 350 gsm Racing Green Colorplan with black ink, staple-bound.
In Pursuit of an Apparition, Hands Can Miss the Object (2024) £12.00 inc. PP from within the UK
Collaboration with Maria Ahmed
A5, 36 x inner 100 gsm recycled natural pages + 4 cover 300gsm full colour recycled uncoated. Second print on satin, staple-bound.
Materialism and its Discontents (2024) SOLD OUT
157 x 240 mm, 32 inner pages 100 gsm x recycled natural colour + 4 170 gsm full colour recycled natural, staple-bound.
LAMELLA://pamphlet (2023) SOLD OUT
157 x 240 mm, 56 inner pages 100 gsm x recycled natural colour + 4 170 gsm full colour recycled uncoated, staple-bound.
dialogues for one (2023) SOLD OUT
A5, 56 x inner 100 gsm recycled natural pages + 4 cover 300 gsm full colour recycled natural, staple-bound.
why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers/ (2021) SOLD OUT
A4, 50 x inner pages 100gsm recycled uncoated + 4 cover 300 gsm full silk, perfect binding.
this family too (2020) SOLD OUT
A5, 40 pages, includes covers, uncoated recycled, staple-bound.
