PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
September 15, 2025
Healing Doublespeak: Chiral Distortion & the Recursive Arc
New Book Confronts the Crisis of Language in Civic Life
Madera, CA — Workingarts Press today announced the release of Healing Doublespeak: Chiral Distortion & the Recursive Arc, a groundbreaking book by Fredo and Renee Martin that confronts the ways language is distorted in modern civic and cultural life—and offers pathways to restore meaning, trust, and shared understanding.
At a time when words like freedom, truth, and justice are deployed to mean their opposites, the book argues that language itself has become chiral: outwardly the same yet functioning in reversed and often destructive ways depending on who wields it. This distortion, the authors contend, undermines the health of our social systems and corrodes our collective capacity to act together.
“Language is the connective tissue of our civic life,” says co-author Fredo Martin. “When words are twisted against themselves, it isn’t just semantics at stake—it’s our ability to trust, collaborate, and sustain democracy.”
Drawing on decades of work in design, communication, and education, Healing Doublespeak combines cultural critique with practical insight. It traces the historical roots of linguistic inversion, identifies its mechanisms in today’s discourse, and points toward a living system’s approach to reclaiming words for relational integrity.
“We can’t resign ourselves to inauthentic language,” adds Renee Martin. “This book is about recognizing distortion, but also about recovering the capacity of words to heal, connect, and guide us toward collective flourishing.”
Healing Doublespeak: Chiral Distortion & the Recursive Arc is available beginning September 15, 2025 through major distributors, including IngramSpark, Amazon, and direct from https://workingartspress.com
About the Authors
Fredo and Renee Martin are co-founders of Workingarts Marketing, Inc. and Workingarts Press. With backgrounds in education, design, publishing, and communication, they bring lived experience and professional expertise to their analysis of how language shapes—and misshapes—our social systems.
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