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Anti-book : on the art and politics of radical publishing / Nicholas Thoburn.
Author
Thoburn, Nicholas, 1970-
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
xvi, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
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Z278 .T48 2016
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Subject(s)
Publishers and publishing
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Political aspects
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Electronic publishing
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Political aspects
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Self-publishing
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Political aspects
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Authorship
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Political aspects
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Pamphlets
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Publishing
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Communist literature
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Publishing
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Periodicals
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Publishing
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Politics and literature
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Digital media
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Alternative mass media
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Series
Cultural Critique Books
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A cultural critique book
Summary note
"No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms "a communism of textual matter," Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing, shifting the politics of text from an exclusive concern with content and meaning to the media forms and social relations by which text is produced and consumed. Taking a "post-digital" approach in considering a wide array of textual media forms, Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books--to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce. His critique is, instead, one immersed in the many materialities of text. Anti-Book engages with an array of writing and publishing projects, including Antonin Artaud's paper gris-gris and Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto, Guy Debord's sandpaper-bound Memoires, the collective novelist Wu Ming, and the digital/print hybrid of Mute magazine. Empirically grounded, it is also a major achievement in expressing a political philosophy of writing and publishing, where the materiality of text is interlaced with conceptual production. Each chapter investigates a different form of textual media in concert with a particular concept: the small-press pamphlet as "communist object," the magazine as "diagrammatic publishing," political books in the modes of "root" and "rhizome," the "multiple single" of anonymous authorship, and myth as "unidentified narrative object." An absorbingly written contribution to contemporary media theory in all its manifestations, Anti-Book will enrich current debates about radical publishing, artists' books and other new genre and media forms in alternative media, art publishing, media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, and social and political theory"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-359) and index.
Contents
One manifesto less: material text and the anti-book
Communist objects and small press pamphlets
Root, fascicle, rhizome: forms and passions of the political book
What matter who's speaking? The politics of anonymous authorship
Proud to be flesh: diagrammatic publishing in Mute Magazine
Unidentified narrative objects: Wu Ming's political mythopoesi.
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ISBN
9780816699995 ((hardback))
0816699992 ((hardback))
9780816621965 ((paperback))
0816621969 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016003058
OCLC
951157916
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