Today we are republishing SCALE Volume 1 in full: nine issues from 2004, born at the University of California, San Diego, as a monthly journal of aesthetics and computation. Every surviving PDF is open to download, and each original release has a backdated news post so the site reads as a timeline—not a single bulk dump.

We are republishing the 2019 SCALE weekly season—weeks 5–21 from the surviving editorial mirror—with open PDFs, full word-of-the-week essays, complete curated link rivers from the original YAML indexes, and backdated release posts (plus this overview).

SCALE’s third issue, New Tools for Organizing the Sensorium, is out—edited by Tyler Chevéz Mathews with contributions from Andrew McLuhan, Petra Cortright, Andy Hartzell, Luke Rollins, Paul Guzzardo, and Jon Phillips. Read the full Sensorium edition on the web.

The call for New Tools for Organizing the Sensorium is closed; the edited volume is published and readable on the web. Edited by Tyler Chevéz Mathews, SCALE Sensorium gathers essays, poetry, and field notes on how cultures organize an overwhelming sensorium.

SCALE Multiplier—nine essays on scales of writing from editors and contributors—is freely readable on the web. The 2021 collectible edition minted 88 limited-edition NFT keys; the announcement below records how that release was assembled and distributed.

Scale Week 21 七 qī energizes. Aaron Owens shares "Art Speak"; Clément Renaud writes on Shenzhen for the Lyon government; Jon Phillips notes toward collected work—"USA is the past. China is the past. We are working on the next thing, right?"

Scale Week 20 六 liù answers 40 questions. Zerowaste Energist Information Management (ZEIM) is cracked in the writing, Energy Streams. Scale 20 places secret information in plane view. Can you handle the realidad?

Scale Week 19 五 wǔ is tang. One word of the week & one editors column, Questions on All Sides. With the many questions coming at one of the editors, they will be addressed in Scale 20 Release. Ask your questions now, and add more to another side.

Scale Week 18 四 sì is. 4 Original Writings. Its a family affair. Post-self-unblock, Jon takes the pass in his writing Alley-oop and uses the energy to unblock his Mom and Dad from their writing blocks. First time contributions from Sally Phillips explaining depression era zerowaste policies. Doug Phillips writes "Chainsaw Manicure!" providing some reflection and hope through describing what it is like to be a minister using a chainsaw to chop church pews, "his past." Scale 18 connects to history and upgrades the past (check the website to see :).

Scale Week 17 三 sān is slashing. 3 solid writings. Editor column covers the Self-Unblock. ONG Records Only Next Generation 2 (ONG2) event is recapped including the announcement of art grants. Finally, Clement Renaud lets us know the difference between Shenzhen and other cities. This is a always on time Scale. It is your time to write something for Scale :)

Scale Week 16 二 èr is ART (bad joke, but is sound of èr). Clement Renaud answered the call, and shared a writing, The Writer's Debt and subsequently made a listing of his approach to take control back in his life. Jon Phillips reminded us that ONG2 happened, 7 statements wered made from ONG Records and Fabricatorz Foundation. He also made a writing about his approach to tackling NOT TO DO LISTS, called JINTIAN. Paying Down All Forms of Debt, Scale 16. Feedback Welcome.

Scale Week 15 一 yī is freed. 2nd edition, all fresh writings. The problem now, its one author! :) So to make extra juicy: The Editor's Column by Jon Phillips is Call for Participation + Insider Gossip. Also, The Secret Origin of Bassel Khartabil: The Open Source Open Hardware Developer, a timeline of Bassel's major contributions and how they fit into this universe is out. And, the O.N.G. BREAK-IN Model Specification is published. Scale has an ISSN, goes into the public record and is linkable on Wikipedia AND is in the Library of Congress, history seekers. Soon we will add crypto payments to the upvoting system. Feedback welcome. We keeeeep scaling up while zero-wasting down.

Scale Week 14 零 líng Released Apr 15, 2019

Scale Week 13 源 yuán released Apr 07, 2019

Scale Week 12 艺 Released Mar 29, 2019

Scale Week 11 芯 Released Mar 23, 2019

Scale Week 9 模 mó Released Mon Mar 18, 2019

Scale Week 9 恭喜 gōngxǐ Released Sun Mar 10, 2019

Scale Week 8 信 xìn Released Sun Mar 3, 2019

Scale Week 7 货 huò Released Tue Feb 26, 2019

Scale Week 6 Released! Fri Feb 15, 2019

The First Project of Qi Hardware is Scale, a Journal for Hardware, Software, Crypto and China.

SCALE is a monthly “local” publication about aesthetics and computation, distributed in print and PDF. Edition 8 & 9 closes Volume 1.

Combined edition: SCALE Vol. 1 No. 6 & 7 (May–June 2004).

SCALE Vol. 1 No. 5 documents the journal’s own becoming—including the CVS Book experiment and ties to MESH.FM.

SCALE Vol. 1 No. 4 — collaboration, networks, and collective production.

Scale Vol. 01, No. 03, April 2004 — distributed at scale.ucsd.edu.

SCALE Vol. 1 No. 2 continues the monthly run from UCSD—essays and projects on computation, culture, and performance.

The first issue of SCALE is available: aesthetics, computation, and laptop performance culture from UC San Diego.