Anti-Book

On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing

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Nicholas Thoburn

Presenting what he terms “a communism of textual matter,” Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing. He takes a “post-digital” approach to a wide array of textual media forms, inviting us to challenge the commodity form of books—to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce.

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    My anti-book contribution to the Bangkok Art Book Fair with Ron Hanson. Much enjoyed our conversation.… https://t.co/lDXKIpFwlB

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    @stolenpaper @mathildork Hey, I’m super enjoying what you’re doing and thinking with RPP. And @mathildork , happy t… https://t.co/NJ89xfNbti

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    "Proud to be Flesh: Diagrammatic Publishing in Mute Magazine" - chapter from my Anti-Book on experimental political… https://t.co/jU7jhnLC4b

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    @sazeracked @noctambulate @UMinnPress What a glorious un-volume - hold the anti-book line, ward off the artwork!

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    "Root, Fascicle, Rhizome: Forms and Passions of the Political Book" - chapter from my Anti-Book now free with… https://t.co/VJ4OHLQawv

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    "Communist Objects and Small Press Pamphlets" - chapter from my Anti-Book now free with @UMinnPress #openaccess pla… https://t.co/FGi2dvREfg

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  • rights
    Portions of chapter 2 were published as “Communist Objects and the Values of Printed Matter,” Social Text 28, no. 2 (2010): 1–31; copyright 2010 Duke University Press; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission of the publisher, Duke University Press, http://www.dukeupress.edu. Portions of chapter 3 were published as “The Strangest Cult: Material Forms of the Political Book through Deleuze and Guattari,” Deleuze Studies 7, no. 1 (2013): 53–82. Portions of chapter 5 were published as “Ceci n’est pas un magazine: The Politics of Hybrid Media in Mute Magazine,” New Media and Society 14, no. 5 (2012): 815–31. Portions of chapter 6 were published as “To Conquer the Anonymous: Authorship and Myth in the Wu Ming Foundation,” Cultural Critique 78 (2011): 119–50.

    Copyright 2016 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota
  • edition
    1
  • isbn
    978-1-4529-6383-9
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • restrictions
    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
  • rights holder
    Regents of the University of Minnesota
  • rights territory
    World
  • version
    1.0
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452963839