Title: Practices of Everyday Ethics (Volume 3): Middling Memoir & Archive
Author: Lois Klassen
Date: 2025
Series: Series
Pages: 24
Language: English
Dimensions: (141 mm) x 5.5″ (141 mm)
Colour: Riso-printed with black and teal coloured ink on white and kraft papers.
Binding: Hand sewn (5-hole signature binding); belly band
Printing: Riso-printed at the Communications Design Studio (Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada)
Edition: first edition of 100
ISBN: 978-1-988895-38-3
Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ) License). Content copyrights remain with listed contributors.
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The written use of the word middling dates back to the 15th century
when it showed up as mydlyn. Over the years mydlyn, mydlyng,
midling, and middling carried meanings including moderate or
average (for size, strength, quality, and income); intermediate (for
a location or measurement between extremes); half-assed (for a
judgment of mediocrity); poor but not terrible (for health and general
feeling); and, older but not old (for a person’s age)…”
Middling Memoir & Archive, is the third ‘zine (Volume 3) in the series Practices of Everyday Ethics. The series presents pamphlets that muse over the wicked problems confronting people in the everyday. It aims for common understanding in the hope of making good. As artist-produced zines, these pamphlets can be freely share, exchanged, copied, cited, used as colouring books, or put to some other creative use.
