To support the publication of Etienne Turpin’s book Stainlessness by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, Sound & Language has released a special edition broadsheet publication featuring a short essay and a set of four prints which present the story of labor movements in North America and show how they have shaped the cities of Sudbury, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Detroit.

While processes of urbanization have all but erased these struggles from our cities and left only ambivalent monuments to mark the past, contemporary architectural “capriccios” of The Architecture of Mineralization assert the centrality of labor as a force capable of transforming the nature of cities, the culture of America, and the geologic deep-time marked by the Anthropocene. The publication was designed by Sara Dean and is exclusively distributed by Sound & Language.