[Roberto Calasso and his fearlessness about the future of the press.]

Signs relate to far more than the ‘book’. Semiotics may lend itself to written texts, but the practice needn’t limit itself to one technology. Stoa is a press, but everything textual takes on many forms. Digitality is capable of complementing texts with everything surrounding them: community, cinema, music, and more. For the one willing to organize these mediums around the written word, there is digital technology to do it. Distancing ourselves from uncritical physicalism, Stoa is a digitial space.

Neither are we uncritical to digitality. The digital is the ghostly. Its nature is a fever dream. But the ghostly can serve the physical, we think. So can fever dreams. They must simply be harnessed.