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This article focuses on two independently published magazine projects, Sabat (2016–) and Momma Tr. This comparison of the Little Review (1914–29), NXS (2017–2022), and Burnt Roti (2016–) opens up possibilities to view disparate non-mainstream magazine projects as potent incubatory spaces for new magazinal assemblages.

In three case studies, we offer analyses of linguistic defamiliarization, typography and design, and the representation of temporal experiences of migrancy to highlight the entanglement of aesthetic strategies as well as their persistence over time. In order to emphasize parallels between precarious, noncommercial, and innovative micro-publishing practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we propose to use the term ‘microzine’. Language, materiality, and temporality are found to be key elements for experimental multimodal expressions challenging mainstream periodical cultures. more This article examines aesthetic strategies employed in the modernist little magazine and contemporary independent magazines.