MISO-SUBURBIUM 50150

A semiotic jet black hand-grenade full of seething rage aimed at the head of the world. An ebony ceremonial knife directed for the jugular of society. A zine, by Keran S, the first of many. Dedicated to Fahim Minkah. Somewhere out there in Ho Chi Minh City is a different more condensed version of this, where it was first distributed by Nam Spencer Nguyen at the Zinners Fair (the first zine fair of it's kind in Vietnam) on Keran's behalf.
Heavily inspired by Mieke Gerritzen's Visual Power series, various Power-Violence compilation record sleeve designs by Pessimiser Records such as the Cry Now Cry Later series, and photography by Joseph Rodriguez which were often used in the aforementioned records.

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Thank you Nam, Kufre, Viro, and my brother Eden for helping me make this.

Miso-Suburbium 50150 is my first minizine an ultimate assemblage of what I'm about and what I believe in condensed into a singular minizine with two primary sources of inspiration: Hardcore Punk and its sister genre Power-Violence as well as Black Liberation, both of which I live by. From the title, to the zine's general design, to its wording is a comingling of these explosive forces.

The title: Misosuburbium 50150 has three points of inspiration:

1) Mîsos, a Greek prefix meaning hatred

2) Suburbium, a Latin word I happened to come across

3) 50150, from 5150 a California law code that allows for the involuntary psychiatric hospitalization of an adult experiencing a mental health crisis. I didn't know of this term until I heard it in Despise You's track Three Day Hold from their 2011 split with Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

"You're on a three day hold, you're a 5150 and you think we should kick it? Live up in heaven with Jesus Christ, Sadat, and Reagan."