refactor

The future we want won't build itself.

COMING SOON - ISSUE 1 AUGMENT

ISSUE 01

For this issue, we’re drawn to augmentations. What could it mean to write, think, or create with technologies that have become grafted to us? Are they echoes, shadows, parasites, collaborators, symbionts, or all of the above? We're interested in exploring how new technologies can shape, sustain, and ensnare us all at once.

We're still accepting submissions.

Put your own spin on AUGMENT

Editorial

Beyond Augment vs. Automate

Amita Shukla, Allison Armijo, Jade Vine

What comes after the augment/automate debate?

Features

Daniel Wu

What's the future of lobbying?

Perspectives

Shreeda Segan

Review: Antimemetics by Nadia Asparouhova

Short Fiction

Spencer Nitkey

What's the future of architecture?

Our Mission

May you live in interesting times is, famously, a curse.

Well, we live in interesting times.

Embrace, retreat or recoil from it - this is the world as we are presented with it.

So what are you going to do about it?

Refactor is fundamentally action oriented. We’re less interested in descriptions of what ails us than we are in prescriptions, however rudimentary.

Be normative.

Read our full mission
If you don't like us, you can't beat us, but you can join us.

Contributors & Submissions

You don't have to have a writing background to submit. We're more interested in your unique point of view.

Our editorial interest is in the story that you alone can tell.

What have you built, what scenes are you part of, what rocks have you turned over?

And what have you learned from it?

Write for Refactor

We're now accepting submissions for Issue 1.

Submission Guidelines