Deliberate anachronism of form can function as a political weapon

Evidence

Savage Messiah deploys anachronism as a weapon. At first sight, at first touch – and tactility is crucial to the experience: the zine doesn’t feel the same when it’s JPEGed on screen – Savage Messiah seems like something familiar. The form itself, the mix of photographs, typeface-text and drawings, the use of scissors and glue rather than digital cut and paste; all of this make Savage Messiah seem out of time, which is not to say out of date. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 474

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier claims about ‘Return to archaic form can itself be a rendering of future shock’ and ‘What looks like nostalgia for the past can actually be a longing for modernism.’ — connects to: Some political entrenchment is deliberately designed, not merely incidental — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 202
• SEED: Article angle: anachronistic craft (print, tape, analogue) as political resistance rather than mere nostalgia — why scissors-and-glue subverts screens.