Heterotopias, the video game architecture magazine, gets a print edition

Lost in Cult will publish a print collection of Heterotopias, a digital magazine founded by Gareth Damian Martin in 2017 that explores video game architecture and virtual photography. The magazine's name is borrowed from Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopias—spaces that simultaneously represent, invert, and contest real spaces. The first print volume collects the magazine's first three issues, covering topics such as the Shanghai of Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (2010) as captured through in-game analog photography with a Fujica STX-1 and 35mm lens, the brutalist geometries of the Metroid series, and the ideology of video game toilets, referencing philosopher Slavoj Žižek. The magazine originated from a column on Kill Screen, where Martin would photograph game spaces and write accompanying texts. When Kill Screen shut down, Martin commissioned other writers to continue the project. The crowdfunding campaign for the first print collection, which includes individual issues, a bundle, and a deluxe edition with a study volume, ends on June 13, 2023.