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Kontent · Vol. I · No. 0010 November 2026
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Kontent accession label. Issue 00. Acc. no. K/0. Dated NOV 2026. Held by OPEN SHELF.ISSUE00ACC. NO.DATEDHELD BYK/0NOV 2026OPEN SHELF
Volume I · Number 00K/0

Put It Back

People who cannot leave things alone: a spire rebuilt to a year nobody will say aloud, a dead man’s eleven doors up for auction, a record that had its noise taken off and wants it returned, a book introduced four times by the same embarrassed man, a voice cut into syllables in 1987 and still apologising. An issue about restoration, taken through the restorers, the cleaners and the cleaned, and what each of them thinks the thing is being put back to.

The Last Judgment at Saint-Remacle, Marchevaux, as Firmin Lejoly left it in 1893
Cover · Pl. 00.0The Last Judgment at Saint-Remacle, Marchevaux, as Firmin Lejoly left it in 1893Teodor Vasko for Kontent
Published
10 November 2026
Extent
30 pp.
Entries
6
Words
8,022
HoldingOpen shelf
Open the bound issue →Full screen, in pages that turn
Entry 1: The Only Apostle with a Favourite Building, 1,797 wordsEntry 2: She Has Apologised for Every Late Train to Bodø Since 1987, 1,316 wordsEntry 3: I Was Wrong in 1981, and Again in 1996, 1,423 wordsEntry 4: Clean to the Bridge of the Nose, 670 wordsEntry 5: The Man Who Puts the Hiss Back, 1,319 wordsEntry 6: Lot 214: A Box of Somebody's Applause, 1,497 words
Section through the issue8,022 words

Contents

06 entries
  1. 1The essayK/0.A.001The Only Apostle with a Favourite BuildingI own a postcard of a copper saint who spent a century and a half admiring one spire, and I think he can explain what France meant when it promised to rebuild it identically.Ilse Marrow8 min · 1,797 words · pp. 5–8
  2. 2ProfileK/0.A.002She Has Apologised for Every Late Train to Bodø Since 1987Ten hours up the Nordland Line with Gunvor Aasland, who read some lists into a microphone in 1987 and is still, most mornings, telling northern Norway that she regrets the delay.Rafe Okonjo6 min · 1,316 words · pp. 9–12
  3. 3Foreword to a fourth editionK/0.A.003I Was Wrong in 1981, and Again in 1996My publisher asked for a new foreword and offered, tactfully, to retire the three old ones. I have printed them all instead, with notes, so that you can watch me being wrong.Pieter Vahl6 min · 1,423 words · pp. 13–16
  4. 4PortfolioK/0.A.004Clean to the Bridge of the NoseNine objects photographed at night in three conservation studios, each caught at the point furthest from both dirty and done. The notary's wife had been cleaned only as far as her nose.Teodor Vasko3 min · 670 words · pp. 17–19
  5. 5ConversationK/0.A.005The Man Who Puts the Hiss BackWhat do you do when you have spent thirty years taking the noise off old records, and then a fiddler's granddaughter writes to ask where his foot went? A conversation in Bergen.Hanne Løvstad6 min · 1,319 words · pp. 20–23
  6. 6Sale catalogueK/0.A.006Lot 214: A Box of Somebody's ApplauseFor sale in Haarlem this December: the working tools of a man who was every horse, door and thunderstorm on Dutch radio, and one reel of applause he never explained.Ana Ferreira-Holm7 min · 1,497 words · pp. 24–27
  7. ·Back matterCorrespondence and notices
  8. ·Back coverThe catalogue of objectsNumbered specimens, offered for introductions.

Colophon · No. 00

This is a launch issue, written with AI models and assembled by the editors. It had no ballot, the vote by which holders settle four entries of every issue from No. 02 on; that is the work of The Apparatus. Set in Newsreader and IBM Plex. Registered as K/0; bundle 64a2d82577682430….

Kontent — drawing set
Contents — Put It Back
Sheet
03 of 12
Issue
#00
Extent
30 pp.
Scale
1 : 1