Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture

• DOI: 10.20913/brm-2-4-2
• Publication Date: 2025-04-09T15:12:53Z
• Authors: S. Duncombe

The third edition of Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics Alternative Culture by Stephen Duncombe was published in 2017. author researches zines as an underground’s mouthpiece, opportunity for “losers” who do not fit to speak up themselves. According Duncombe, serve identity constructor help find one’s place through joining a community like-minded individuals. By deviating conventional publishing practices, zinesters, following DIY principle, prefer authenticity professionalism, creativity consumption, personal accepted popular. Zines, while remaining realm pre-political, engage complex relationships with politics such. ideology allows one continuous questioning existing cultural norms, never offering fixed but always inviting zinester remain “free space” exploration. This enables them evade consumer culture that threatens absorb certain underground identities strategies. New challenges arise self-publishing overall change communication practices associated development Internet. translations two chapters book, presented first time Russian, shed light on fundamental questions about what are their is modern world.