Inpatient Press Newsbox Box Set

Founded in 2013 by Mitch Anzuoni, Inpatient Press is an independent publisher of transcendent and transgressive works of poetry, fiction, art, video games, and ephemera under the motto of "We Publish What Others Do Not."

The Inpatient Press Newsbox Boxset is a portable newsbox collection of Inpatient zines, books, and multimedia software that have graced the sidewalks of NYC. Since 2019, when the first Inpatient newsbox was placed outside the Whitney Museum (and summarily destroyed, leading to a letter of apology from the Museum included in the set), numerous releases have been distributed via these boxes including limited-run zines and editions. Now Inpatient Press is offering a special portable newsbox boxset containing some of our most outlandish and heralded titles, including Universal Hedonics, Armageddon News, Psychotronic Crimes, and Chronological Discoveries as well as a multimedia DVD-ROM containing our two games, Small Press Tycoon and Mezzanine, created in collaboration with the artist Peter Christian.

Printed works

Armageddon News A compendium of “underground newspaper” materials that were conceived, financed, or supported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of their Counter-Intelligence Program against “domestic subversives” on campus. From 1967-onwards the FBI created and funded numerous campus zines and other printed matter in order to discredit the growing student movements against the Vietnam War as well as demonize the Bureau’s ideological opponents.

Universal Hedonics Neurotech devices, directed energy weapons, and remote emotional state sensors are but a few of the patents showcased here in this selection of diagrams and abstracts from a diverse array of companies and persons. Since patents do not actually require the inventions to be functioning or in a prototype state, they act as a site for projecting the inventor’s technosomatic desires regardless of physical feasibility. Yet many of these patents, such as “Target tracking system and method with jitter reduction suitable for directed energy systems” are verifiably real technologies whose interdictory applications have been applied to protestors and dissidents.

Psychotronic Crimes The English translation of an educational gangstalking manga published in February 2020 by the Technological Crime Victims Network Nonprofit Organization of Japan. Originally titled お前はまだ集団ストーカーを知らない (literally “You Don’t Know Gang Stalking Yet”), the comic serves as a comprehensive overview of the heinous acts of electronic harassment and gang stalking perpetuated by various religious and political organizations, unnamed in the comic but hinted to be the Unification Church and the Liberal Democratic Party. Following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a Liberal Democratic politician with deep ties to the Unification Church, these groups and their sordid techniques of coercion have come under serious legal scrutiny for the first time in Japan’s history. However, the true nature of these crimes is still obscure to the populace and many victims remain alienated and alone. Founded in 1998, the Technology Crime Victim Network provides community support for targeted individuals and helps raise awareness about gang stalking and other electronic crimes in Japan and abroad.

Chronological Discoveries A physical, spiritual, and mental guide to the art of time travel. Based on Steven L. Gibbs' own original research and inventions, this instructional manifesto contains revelatory insights into the hidden Kabbalistic nature of time, the temporality of the soul, and the science of radionics.

Inpatient 1, Whitney 0 poster

Digital works

Small Press Tycoon The original DIY publishing adventure sim. Print chapbooks and zines, hold readings, discover new and exciting authors, sign distribution deals, and even win industry awards! Live out your literary dreams. Give spell-binding lectures for rapt audiences and sell your wares at book fairs. Discover mysterious manuscripts in the bowels of the library. Navigate the rocky terrain of the literary world and make choices that matter - no two presses are alike.

Mezzanine A first-person point-and-click adventure that traces the origin of the modern web and takes you into the heart of San Francisco’s Multimedia Gulch on the eve of Y2K. The player assumes the mantle of HR admin working late into the night at Zentropy, a buzzy up-and-coming multimedia startup. The game is ostensibly an office simulator; you can read emails, send layoff notices, drop off reports, and make coffee. In the process, you may encounter hidden puzzles and uncover sordid details about the company and its operations. But beyond this ludic veneer, Mezzanine is a reification, a summoning of the fallen world of the Gulch, an era where there was still, apparently, a future. Now, the promises of multimedia and the internet have resulted in widespread alienation, anxiety, dissociation, severe wealth inequality, and colossal levels of psychiatric medication prescriptions. As a forged artifact, whose very form evokes Myst and what was once considered the bleeding edge, Mezzanine explores the lost potential of multimedia and how our current societal psychosis may have always been by design.