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KROTCH Magazine is our monthly attempt to share the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto in written form. In each issue, readers can find texts that expose the healthy and unhealthy indecencies within Prague and the microcosm of the art world that it represents.

Our texts are written by members of the community, though you can’t find authors’ names in the magazine. We do this because we are uncomfortable with the contemporary notion that author, identity, and intention are the only forces that make up the effect of a text. When in reality, it is the audience, or the reader, who in the end makes up the meaning of the work.

When physically engaging with our magazine, we want to encourage the reader to dive deep into each text, folding the pages how they wish, and creating their own realities from the language in their hands. Similarly, we want to encourage the writers of our magazine to write from their real voices that are unfiltered from the restraints of the super-ego.

Each issue comes with 16 pages of texts that span genres from collage, criticism, reviews, reports, rants, and other creative outputs. Each issue is done entirely by hand, using minimal digital tools, to give our readers something that’s been tangible at each stage of production.

Each issue is only 50kč and is available exclusively in print. Current distribution points are at the Globe Bookstore in Nové Mesto, and Žižkovšiška in Žižkov.

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GROWING CUTTING & SMOKING TOBACCO / DECEIVING PRESCRIPTIVISM / DELIBERATELY SHAT PANTS / THE STREETS AND THE PEOPLE IN THEM / THE DIJORN RHOLIK NIGHTCAP / BLACK BOMBAY CATS KILLED OFF / LABEL OF RUBBING ALCOHOL RUBBED OFF / THE TUG AT THE INNARDS / CRISS CROSS IN SKIRT / OUT FOR MORE BEER / BACK OF TAXI PROMISES / GOOD HRANOLKY / CAN OF CAT FOOD LEFT OUT FOR BLACK BOMBAY CATS / JAROMÍR LELEK’S ORIGINAL ROLE / RUG MISSING / FOUND IN DAD’S BIRD BATH / IF LOST / PLEASE KEEP / THE OBEDIENCE OF A SINGLE VOICEMAIL / PERSISTENT ACHING HUNGER TO PISS / JENDA PUDLAK’S END OF ARM KALEIDOSCOPE / TO LEAN AGAINST WALL IN UNISON WITH WALL / POTRAVINY BREAKFAST / STEFAN FIEDLER’S MICROGREEN MACRO / THE SQUARE AS RECTANGLE CIRCLE AS OTHER / NEITHER AS EITHER / ADÉLA HRDLIČKOVÁ’S QUADRILATERAL HUSH IN LIMBO / UNFORGIVABLE JAZZ / GOOD BOOZE / THE HAIRS OF CARPETS AS SMALL TREES / ENDLESS MOMENT OF GOOD / INCREDIBLE VEGETABLES / TYKO SAY’S LAST AND FINAL GARDEN / PHOTO HUNG IN PREMEDITATED POSE / DECEIVING THE DOLL WITH ONE’S OWN HEAD / SLEEPING TO END ALL INTENTION / THE MAN FROM THE PAINTING NEXT DOOR / ELEVATOR AS SAFE SPACE / VIT FACULTATIVE AND THE LIPS / THE FLOWER POT FALLING FROM BITCH’S LEDGE / MICHAEL ROWLAND’S KEEN JEER OF ALL / THE SOUR MILK OUT TO SPILL / DOMESTICATING THE INSIDE OF A SHOE / TO CLEAN THE HOUSE ONLY IN ONE SOCK / THE SOUND OF THE EMPTY TOMATO CAN / FALLING / TUMBLING / THE WHOLE / WAY DOWN / THE STAIRWELL
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