"Education", "Love" and "Culture" are terms associated with a wealth of different meanings, that are undeniably pervasive and structuring of our lives. Despite their inherent subjectivity, it can be easy to petrify these concepts into uni-dimensional dogmas.
Newborn is a bookzine that, through the compilation and production of different media — text, photographs and other more loosely defined visual explorations — offers an approach to these concepts that is guided by radical questioning of what is taken for granted in our commonplace definitions of these notions, in an attempt to discard our own bias and starting our enquiries 'from scratch'. The guiding motto for our edition of the content was 'Love is the question, not the answer.
A similar stance and ambition was adopted by many during the social revolutions that characterised the decades of the 60's and 70's in the 20th century, and so the first edition of Newborn focuses particularly in the 'hippie commune' movement that flourished in these decades, particularly in the United States. Some of these communities were founded and principled by a commitment to experimentation in the field of interpersonal relationships, both in the sexual and romantic sense, but also in a broader structural way. This edition of the bookzine showcases various expressions of this movement, in intersection with the context of feminist emancipation and sexual revolution and of the wide production of literature that propagated these upcoming ideas.
