Dear Practitioner,
What type of questions are part of your publishing practice?
What is beyond the what, why, how, where, to whom questions?

**Reflective Thought Process**
A reflective approach to publishing will focus on each question in a referencial way, it follows a clear path on solving the problem and reduces it to concrete decisions. For example, if you have an archive of photos you would like to publish, when it comes to urgency, you would ask yourself: why do I want to expose this? What are my reasons to circulate this material? In a hypothetical scenario you could answer: because they are the historical memory of a forgotten event, and you would like to remark or highlight what happened.

**Diffractive Thought Process**
I imagine that a diffractive approach to the same scenario would not stop itself in answering the question of urgency, and instead it would actually answer with another question. How are those reasons connected with my publishing actions? How could each of these questions relate to each other? A diffractive approach may be frustrating because it tends to stay in-concrete bouncing without finding solutions. But a diffractive approach is not antagonistic to a reflective one. So reflection can be used as needed. Diffraction just focuses on shed light on creativity *blind spots*. Those moments in the project that it has not been seen yet. It calls for *imagination* and *magic thought* where the irrationality of some questions struggles with being concrete. **It is abstract in its resolution but factual in its contingency.**

This is a work in progress that evolves with the project and aims to be a tool that will help in publishing processes. What you are reading is one example of what I imagine this tool can be.

Thank you for reading.

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