Distort XXIII Vol. 2: Sun & Stainless Steel

Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement — in which the muscles do not also revel…
- Nietzsche
Of late I have come to experience an accumulation of all the reveries I’ve experienced when lifting stainless steel double door fridges up and down stairs across Melbourne and Sydney...
Writing on manual labour and physical culture, Nietzsche's philosophy of the body, writing on the dance of the furniture removalists, the cult of the sun, the Unconquered Sun, Sol Invictus, writing on the Ancient Greeks obsession with tanning, writing on Yukio Mishima and his philosophy of Sun & Steel. This is not a salt of the earth working class glorification of back break and sweat and the redemption of labour.

Card cover with lino cut print, numbered individually /23.

Distort mag started in 2003 to document kvlt hardcore and World War III. The contents of Distort have been dominated by impulse, excess, insomnia, stimulation. No editor, no proofread, no nerd.

Out of the 2000+ pages published over the past couple of decades I am skimming the C.R.E.A.M. into an archival book.

I'm raising funds to print this by making backissues available again via PDF here.

I'm also kicking off a project called the XXIII Project, of which this is the eighth volume.

XXIII will publish 23 mags total. These will be available only in two editions of 23 copies each.

The first edition I will be selling via Prop, Lulu's and the Distort mailorder (here).

The second edition was a unique subscription edition to this project. Now sold out.