The Vermin Issue 03: (UN/IN)SCRIPTED

Inscription is the marking and cutting of a material surface toward the production of meaning which can include writing, printing, casting reliefs, cutting or burning, circumcision, and other bodily modifications. In the aftermath of rupture at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, this issue reflects on our moment of excessive mediation and the simultaneous collapse of truth – where people, places, and things are being erased from public record.

This issue stands as a forum for questioning publishing within a publication – a self-reflexive terrain to examine what we are both doing and not doing when we write, print, and disseminate. At the same time, by straddling between the prefixes “Un” and “In”, this issue indexes our moment of erasure, (un)marking, eliding, unravelling, and disintegration. (Un/in)scripted is a politically urgent invitation toward questioning both the marked and unmarked surface – that which has been written, that which has been left unsaid, or that which has been written only through its non-writing.

Submissions in this issue include reflections on archives and archival practices, erasures and traces of erasures, writings on/of the body, symptoms and the unconscious, skin picking, transition and de-transition, insurgency and political rebellion, and much more.

Contributors
Noa Sanders – Indexing (Counter)Insurgency
Charlotte Carbone – Funnell Tongue
Alex Verman – What Gets Said
Derek Coulombe – Great Legs
Rouzbeh Shadpey –  Bound By Word Alone
Long Pham – Flowers For An Old Shrine 
Suchita – Three Ghazals
Mehdi Dandi – Poet Act
Michael Primrose – In-, Un-, Pre-
Mustafa Uzuner – Notes on How to  Touch a Quince
Kirstian Lezubski – Municipal Benchmarking
@withgoodreason –  Permanence to the Impermanence

Designers
Monica Chung, Kinza Zafar

Publishers
The Vermin Mag 

Publication Date
2026

Size
6.8 x 10 inches 
64 pages

Binding
Four colour print, perfect bound