{"product_id":"pacelayers-subscription","title":"Pace Layers Annual Journal subscription preorder","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePREORDER NOW\u003cbr\u003eIssue 3 ships Nov 17, 02026\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong Now’s annual print journal explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment through essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, and visual art. The journal takes its name and shape from Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand’s pace layers framework — a tool for thinking about how civilizations work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eNew annual subscribers will also receive a free copy of \u003ca href=\"\/products\/pace-layers-annual-journal-02025\" title=\"Pace Layers 02025 Annual Journal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eIssue 2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, while supplies last.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAbout Issue 3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat does long-term thinking look like in practice?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne answer is maintenance. Not in the narrow sense of “brush the damn teeth,” but what Stewart Brand calls “the whole grand process of keeping a thing going.” Things kept going in this issue range from the human body to Xerox copiers to centuries-old water infrastructure to century-long artworks. What does that require? Attention. Knowledge. Transmission. Adaptation. And the judgment to know when something shouldn’t be kept going at all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFeaturing an excerpt from the next installment of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaintenance: Of Everything\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Stewart Brand; Long Now Talks by Bayo Akomolafe, Nadia Asparouhova, Kate Crawford, Melody Jue, Indy Johar, Nina Miolane \u0026amp; Claire Isabel Webb, Eric Ries, and Lynn Rothschild; essays by Josh Berson, Samuel Butler, deepfates, Amitav Ghosh, Taras Grescoe, Emily Hill, and Jonathon Keats; fiction by Andrew Dana Hudson; poetry by Denise Hearn and Gary Snyder; art by Casey Cripe, Isabella Kirkland, Katie Paterson, and Stefan Sagmeister; and photography by Christopher Michel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Long Now Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48904475508822,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6612\/4886\/files\/pacelayers3.png?v=1790050439","url":"https:\/\/shop.longnow.org\/products\/pacelayers-subscription","provider":"Long Now","version":"1.0","type":"link"}