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Aboriginal Australians, 48

abstract labor, 42–43, 67–68, 105, 155, 254

“ACE Digital Uncut” forum, 269

Adorno, Theodor W., 57, 61, 72, 81–87, 96–99; commodity book, 81–82; critique of universal communicability, 82; mimetic relation between content and form, 82–85; Philosophical Fragments, 97; revolutionary leaflets, 99. See also “barbaric asceticism”

Alberro, Alexander, 11

Albert, Saul, 263

Allen, Gwen, 12–13, 224

All the King’s Horses (novel), 197–99, 342n90

Althusser, Louis, 273, 275

Amazon (company), ix–x, 45

Amazon Noir, x, xii

Amici, Marco, 283

Anabaptists, 184, 193

Anderson, Benedict, 42, 259

AND publishing, 55

anonymous authorship, 58–59, 168–77, 191–92, 197, 205–7, 210, 212–14, 216–19, 337n15, 338n30, 339n42

“Anonymous” (hacker) movement, 169

anti-book, 1–3, 11–16, 25–26, 48–49, 110–11, 149–50, 154–57, 275; definition of, 1–2

Apple (company), 38

Arab Spring, 35, 38

Ark of the Covenant, 118

Artaud, Antonin, 111–12, 145–49, 164, 166

artists’ book, 3, 9–13, 53, 105, 303n23, 304n39. See also bookwork

Art-Language (journal), 11

Arts Council England (ACE), 251, 265–69

Arvatov, Boris, 66–74, 92, 95

“assemblage” concept, 139, 225, 233–34, 240–41, 262, 269–70

Assembling (serial publication), 13–15

Atelier Populaire, 100–101

author-function, 58, 170–76, 210

authors: and the division of labor, 43–44, 337n14; punishment of, 171

Autonomia movement, 101

Babbage, Charles, 43

Bacon, Francis, 115, 121

Badiou, Alain, 27–28, 39, 59, 209, 272–76, 283

Baines, Jess, 55

Bakker, Conrad, 78

Balestrini, Nanni, 101

Banash, David, 157–58

Banner Repeater, 13, 51, 55

“barbaric asceticism,” 96–97

Barber, Stephen, 147

Barrot, Jean, 102. See also Dauvé, Gilles

Basbanes, N. A., 73

Bataille, Georges, 75–76, 157

Baudelaire, Charles, 84, 95, 149

Baum, Kelly, 198

Baumeister, Ruth, 162

Beaumelle, Agnès de la, 147–48

Beck, Glenn, 204

Beckett, Samuel, 96, 175

Benefit of Christ Crucified, The, (fictionalized book in Q), 192, 194–96

Beni Memorial Library, 88–89

Benjamin, Walter, 57, 64, 71–76, 79–81, 91, 96, 99, 107, 276, 284; critique of “use value,” 71– 3; “fringe areas” of libraries, 79; theory of collecting, 71–74, 79–80, 84, 95, 97, 99

Bergson, Henri, 200–202, 259–60

Bernadette Corporation (collective pseudonym), 58–59, 169, 197–200, 203

Bernes, Jasper, 215

Bernstein, Michèle, 58–59, 163, 197–202, 342n95

Berry Slater, Josephine, 228–29, 252, 257–60, 268

Bey, Hakim, 190

Bezos, Jeff, 45

Bible, the, 82, 116, 121–22, 182

black cinema (U.S., 1970s), 88, 357n68

#BlackLivesMatter, 38

Blaha, Agnes, 80

Blake, William, xi–xii, 303n19

Blanchot, Maurice, 24, 59, 110–11, 212–14, 256

Blissett, Luther (footballer), 187–89. See also Luther Blissett (collective pseudonym)

Bodley, Thomas, 98

Bolter, Jay David, 48–49, 52

book industry, 41–45, 155. See also books: as commodities

books: authority of, 47, 51, 114–18, 121; burning of, 193, 195, 276; in Christianity, 114–20; and class, x, 18–19, 33, 41, 43, 45–47, 80; codex form of, 4, 6, 47–48, 52–53, 112, 114, 118, 120, 142, 192, 196, 231; collections of, 79–80; and colonialism, 47–48, 116, 293; as commodities, ix–x, xii, 41–48, 80–83, 97, 107, 155, 190; figures of, 52; and gender, x, 18, 33, 46, 80, 220; materiality of, 109–11, 138–40, 150; and mimesis, 82–85; properties and characteristics of, 78–80, 86–88, 95, 110–11; and race, 47, 80; and regimes of signs, 178

bookwork, 3, 9–16. See also artists’ book

Bordiga, Amadeo, 168–70, 208, 210, 275

bourgeois class and culture, 43–46, 161–62

Breton, André, 75

British Library, 54

Burroughs, William, 138, 284–85

business practices in radical publishing, 264–66

Camatte, Jacques, 88, 103, 159, 210, 213, 217, 275

capitalism, 22–26, 66–68, 229

Carrión, Ulises, 10

Carroll, Lewis, 146

Casarini, Luca, 279–80

Casarino, Cesare, 73

Cascone, Kim, 50

Casinière, Joëlle de la, 139

Castro, Fidel, 296

Catholicism, 116, 120–21, 194, 276

Ceauşescu, Nicolae, 276

censorship, 172, 174

Centre for Disruptive Media, 38, 53

Century City exhibition (Tate Modern, 2001), 92

Charlesworth, J. J., 244

Chartier, Roger, 6, 337n14

Chartists, 211

Châtelet, Gilles, 224, 236, 241

Chesterfield, Earl of, 80

Children’s Crusades, 139

Chimenti, Dimitri, 285

Chto Delat? group and newspaper, 54–55

cinema, 72, 111, 266, 276, 283–84, 288, 290

Clarke, Ami, 13

cognitive capacity and digital media, 46

collections of objects, 72–74, 91; public and private, 74. See also Benjamin, Walter: theory of collecting

Collu, Gianni, 88, 103, 217

colonialism, 47–48, 116, 293

Comedia group, 264–67

Coming Insurrection, The, 204, 206

Comité (journal), 59, 170, 212–13, 217–21

Comité d’Action Etudiants-Ecrivains, 170, 212

commodification of artworks and artists, 11

commodity fetishism, 67–71, 76–77, 155

“communal being,” 178–81, 191, 200

communism, 21–27, 39, 57–60, 69–70, 112, 150–51, 164, 168–69, 200, 202, 205, 212–13, 274; and bookwork, 16; of textual matter, ix–xi, xiii, 1

Communist League, 207–8

Communist Manifesto, The, 26, 34, 206–11; authorship of, 206–8; translation of, 207, 211

“communist object” concept, 64–65, 71, 75–78, 85, 101–2, 108

communist party, theory of, 168, 170, 205–18, 222

communist writing and publishing, 3, 13–18, 35, 58, 214–16, 220–21, 254

communization theory, 21–25

conceptual art, 11

Constructivism, 66, 70, 72

Cooper, Gary, 289–90

Copenhagen Free University, 90

copyright, 32, 34, 44, 170, 173, 190; anticopyright, 162, 190, 267, 335n214

corporate practices in arts funding, 268–69

Cramer, Florian, 50, 54

credit facilities for consumers, 45

Crimp, Douglas, 74

“criticism–self-criticism,” 125, 133

Cubo-Futurists, 140–41

Cultural Revolution, 112, 122, 126–36, 272

culture, value accorded to, 41

Curtius, Ernst Robert, 114, 121

Daily Courant, The, 231

Dauvé, Gilles, 18

Davies, Anthony, 229–30

Davis, Angela, 296–97

Dawson, Richard, 251

Dean, Jodi, 36–40

Debord, Guy, 14, 16, 28, 59, 61, 103–4, 111, 149–66, 197–99; Mémoires, 16, 58, 103–4, 111, 149–58, 163–66, 198, 333n190

Debray, Régis, 14–23, 61–62, 256, 276

Deem, Melissa D., 29

de Gaulle, Charles, 149

de Jong, Jacqueline, 162

Deleuze, Fanny, 112–13

Deleuze, Gilles, xii, 36, 47, 58, 60, 75, 87–88, 100, 109–22, 128, 134–46, 151, 155, 165–66, 225, 227, 233, 240–41, 253, 257, 262, 266, 269, 272, 276, 282–92, 295–96; compulsion to communicate, 36; myth, 272, 282–83, 286–87, 290–92, 295–96; writing machine, 112–13. See also “assemblage” concept; diagrams, theory of; “falsifying narration”; “fascicular root-book” concept; free indirect discourse; “rhizome-book” concept; “root-book” concept

dérive, 154

Derrida, Jacques, 48–49, 52, 56, 92–93, 110

Descartes, René, 121

détournement, 133, 149, 151–54, 162, 198–99

Deutsch-Franzöische Jahrbücher (journal), 215

“diagrammatic publishing,” 59, 225, 232, 235, 237–44, 253, 255, 262, 267–71

“diagrammatic writing” (Drucker), 53

diagrams, theory of, 224–25, 232, 234, 236–37, 240–43, 262

digital rights management, x, 45, 50–51

Disobedienti group, 279–80

distributed authorship, 253–54

Dittmer, Lowell, 133–34

Documents (journal), 75, 100

Donadio, Rachel, 291

Donaldson v. Becket, 44

Drucker, Johanna, 9, 52–53, 86, 90, 142

Duras, Marguerite, 212

Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 273

e-books, 45, 52

Economist, The, 274

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., 7–8

Elijah Muhammad, 295

Endnotes (journal), 68, 170, 215–19

Engels, Friedrich, 26–27, 103, 122, 207, 272–73

English language, 293

engraving: in the emergence of abstract labor, 43

Enlightenment, the, 19, 116

ephemerality of print media, 30–31, 37, 85, 94, 97–101, 120, 149

Essex, Richard, 106, 341n66. See also Tompsett, Fabian

Evangelisti, Valerio, 285

Facebook, 37–40, 56, 246

Fahs, Beanne, 30

“Fallout” art project, 263–64

“falsifying narration,” 283–90

Farocki, Harun, 134–35

Farrachi, Armand, 139

“fascicular root-book” concept, 138–39

Febvre, Lucien, 42

Fellini, Federico, 266

Feltes, N. N., 44–45

feminism, 12, 27–29, 34, 98

fetishism, 76–77. See also commodity fetishism

54 (novel), 288–90

56a Archive, 98, 101

financial crisis (2007–8), 250

Financial Times, The, 231–32, 347n19

Fin de Copenhague, 150, 330n151

Findlay, L. M., 293–94

Fisher, John, 120–21

Five Star Movement, 274

Flusser, Vilém, 17–18

Fogarasi, Adalbert, 254–55

Ford, Laura Oldfield, 246

Ford, Simon, 229–30

Fordism, 21

Foucault, Michel, 58, 109, 113, 169–72, 175–77, 189–90, 295, 338n30

“found object” (objet trouvé), 74–75

fragment, theory of, 88, 221

free indirect discourse, 257–58, 291–92

Freeman, Jo, 247

Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 208

Freud, Sigmund, 121

Fuller, Buckminster, 251

Futur Anterieur (journal), 226, 260, 269

Futurist books, 111, 140–44, 149

Galileo, 121

Gehl, Robert W., 37

“general intellect,” 189–90

Genet, Jean, 48–49

Genoa: anti-G8 events in, 279–81

Genosko, Gary, 257–58

Giacometti, Alberto, 75

Giap, Vo Nguyen, 296

Gilmartin, Kevin, 18

Girodias, Maurice, 30

Gitelman, Lisa, 3

Giuliani, Carlo, 280–81

Goebbels, Joseph, 276

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 121

Golan, Romy, 75

Goldsmith, Kenneth, 4

Gomorrah, 291

Goncharova, Natalia, 144–45

Google (company), 38, 246

Gornick, Vivian, 30

Gough, Maria, 70

Grant, Cary, 288–92, 299

Greaney, Patrick, 154

Great Leap Forward, 127, 120, 132

Greenberg, Clement, 9–10

Grillo, Beppe, 274

Grin without a Cat, A (film), 296

Gruppe SPUR, 159

Guattari, Félix, xii, 11, 47, 58, 75, 100, 109–22, 128, 134–46, 155, 165–66, 225, 227, 233–34, 240–41, 253, 257, 262, 269, 282; institutional psychotherapy and journal publishing, 257–58; on writing Anti-Oedipus, 113–14. See also “assemblage” concept; diagrams, theory of; “fascicular root-book” concept; “rhizome-book” concept; “root-book” concept

Guestroom press, 87

Gurianova, Nina, 144

Gutenberg letterpress, xii, 2, 42–44, 106, 142, 144, 153

Hall, Gary, 53, 191

Hamburg Theses, 158–63

Hampton, Michael, 13

haptic aesthetics, 143–44

Haraway, Donna, 28, 34

Hardt, Michael, 34–36

Harron, Mary, 31

Hart, Kevin, 213

Hayes, Anthony, 160

Hayles, N. Katherine, 4–6, 10, 50, 57, 234

Hayward Gallery, 54

Hedditch, Emma, 90

Hegel, G. W. F., 48–49

Heine, Henriette, 90

Heller, Dana, 31

heretical texts, 44

“hieroglyphs of the anti-commodity” (Rancière), 62–64

Hitchcock, Alfred, 289

Hitler, Adolf, 145, 276, 354n25

Hoffman, Abbie, x

Hollier, Denis, 76, 100

Home, Stewart, 90, 184, 341n66

Horkheimer, Max, 97

Hume, David, 121

hybrid publishing, 51, 53, 224–25, 228, 235, 240, 242, 251–52, 269

hypertext, 48–49, 52–53

illuminated books, xi–xii, 121

Info Centre, 90

Infopool project, 90–95

Ingold, Tim, 43

“inline metadata,” 4

Insipidities (blog), 218

Institute for Social Research, 97

Institute of Contemporary Arts, 244

Internationale situationniste (journal), 61, 162, 313n1, 335n213, 335n214

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) system, 45, 106

Invariance (journal), 88–89

Israeli state, 35

Jack the Ripper, 154

Jakobsen, Jakob, 64, 90–91, 95–97

Jameson, Fredric, 83–84

Janecek, Gerald, 143

Jesi, Furio, 279

Jesus Christ, 117, 120–21

Johns, Adrian, 7–9

Jones, Andrew F., 128–29

Jones, Rod, 102

Jorn, Asger, 14, 16, 103–8, 111, 149–55, 159, 162, 166, 199; Mémoires, 16, 58, 103–4, 111, 149–58, 163–66, 198; Open Creation and Its Enemies, 106–8

journalism, 254–55

journals, 61–62, 85–86, 102–3

Joyce, James, 121, 138

Kafka, Franz, 84, 99, 112

Kandinsky, Wassily, 153

Kant, Immanuel, 84

Karen Elliot (collective pseudonym), 187

kArt Boo, 105–6

Kearney, James, 114–15, 120

Keller, George, 159

Kelsey, John, 197, 199, 203

Khlebnikov, Velimir, 144

Khrushchev, Nikita, 127, 272–75

Kiaer, Christina, 57, 65–66

King, J. J., 247

Korn, Henry James, 13

Kostelanetz, Richard, 11, 13, 15

Kotànyi, Attila, 158–60

Kouvélakis, Stathis, 178

Krauss, Rosalind, 1, 9, 11, 224, 232, 234

Kruchenykh, Aleksei, 141–45

Kurczynski, Karen, 149, 153

Lacan, Jacques, 113

Larionov, Mikhail, 144

“late age of print, the” 49–50

Latham, John, 195

Leadbeater, Charles, 230–31

Leese, Daniel, 128–29

Leibniz, Gottfried, 73, 88

Leigh, Mike, 80

Lenin, V. I. (and the Leninist model of publishing), 17, 19, 255–58, 272–73

Leroux, Pierre, 17

Leslie, Esther, 72, 99

Letters (journal), 54

Lettrist International, 152–53, 156

Leys, Simon, 132–33

libraries and librarianship, 79, 98

LIES (journal), 54

Lifton, Robert Jay, 125–26, 131

Lin Biao, 127–30, 134

Linebaugh, Peter, 240

Lippard, Lucy, 11–12

Lissitzky, El, 1

Little Red Book. See Mao Zedong: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Locke, John, 173

London Psychogeographical Association (LPA), 86, 104, 107–8

Lorusso, Silvio, 53–54

Ludovico, Alessandro, 50

Luther, Martin, 44, 116, 121, 276, 310n154, 341n76

Luther Blissett (collective pseudonym), 44, 58, 169, 177–81, 187–95, 200, 278, 292; portrait, 188

Lyon, Janet, 28–29, 34

Macfarlane, Helen, 211

MacPherson, C. B., 178

Mad Love, 75

Makdisi, Saree, xi–xii

Malcolm X, 292–98

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 87–88, 108, 121–22, 138

manifesto, xiii, 1, 26–36, 81, 113, 145, 164, 189, 207, 235–36; avant-garde, 27–28; feminist, 28–34

Manituana (novel), 286–87, 293

Maoism, 112, 122, 125–26, 135, 299

Mao Zedong, 58–59, 111, 122–34, 141, 144, 165, 272, 292, 298–99, 325n54; Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung, 122–31, 134–35, 140–44, 165, 324n38, 325n57

Marcus, Grail, 156

Marker, Chris, 296

Martin, Henri-Jean, 42

Marx, Karl, 19–23, 26–27, 43, 58–60, 62, 65–78, 82–84, 103, 107, 121–22, 149–50, 160, 167, 169–80, 202, 206–10, 214–15, 221, 272–75; anonymous authorship, 173–75, 207–8, 337n15, 338n24, 339n42; author-function, 172–75; bourgeois rights and individuality, 178–79; against dogma, 214–15; estrangement and emancipation of the senses, 67, 69; against personality cult, 272–73, 275, 353n7; sales of Capital, 19. See also commodity fetishism; “communal being”; Communist Manifesto; communist party, theory of; “general intellect”; proletariat

Marxism, 23, 65–66, 71, 122, 158, 272

Mascolo, Dionys, 212–13

Masson, André and Lili, 75

“material text,” 3–9, 57

Mauss, Marcel, 157

McCalman, Iain, 19

McCann, Graham, 288–89

McDonough, Tom, 152

McGann, Jerome, 53

McKenzie, D. F., 43, 48

McLuhan, Marshall, 142, 196, 332n181

“media ecology” (Debray), 16, 18, 20, 61, 256

“media specific analysis” (Hayles), 57

Meins, Holger, 134–35

Melville, Herman, 182

Metzger, Gustav, 182, 195

Mignolo, Walter, 47–48, 52, 115

militant books, 113–14

Miller, Laura J., 41–42, 45

mimeographs, 30–31, 61, 89, 94, 97, 156, 335n213

“minifestos,” 235–37, 241–45, 253, 261, 263

Mitropoulos, Angela, 230

Moby-Dick, 182

Modi, Narendra, 274

Mohawk language, 293

“Monsieur Roubignoles presents The Kelsey Collection Artforum 2004–2012,” 203

Montaigne, Michel de, 121

“monument” concept, 100

Moore, Samuel, 211

More, Thomas, 121

Moretti, Franco, ix

Moses, 118–19

Mowitt, John, 110

Moylan, Michele, 4–5

“multiple single” concept, 179–80, 183–91. See also anonymous authorship

Müntzer, Thomas, 121, 194, 278–81

Murphie, Andrew, 3, 51

Murphy, Timothy, 284–85

musical notation, 83

Mute (magazine), 59, 224–71; “Ceci n’est pas un magazine,” 224, 228, 263; commissioning practices, 252–55; editorial voice, 255–58; financial model, 264–71; and magazine immanence, 226–31, 241–43, 252–54, 262, 269–70; “The Magazine that Mistook Its Readers for a Hat!,” 225, 235–43; Metamute archive and website, 235, 240, 243–45, 259–63, 268; OpenMute, 244, 247–48; POD quarterly, 244, 249–51, 259, 268; temporal dimension to, 258–60. See also “diagrammatic publishing”

myth and mythopoesis, 59, 78–98

Nancy, Jean-Luc, 62, 164, 179, 246

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 296, 299

Native Americans, 286, 294

Nazism, 276

Nealon, Jeffrey, 170, 176–77

Nedd Ludd (collective pseudonym), 169, 187

Negri, Antonio, 34–36, 101, 225–27, 231, 233, 241, 260, 269, 346n5

neoliberalism, 23, 59, 180, 191, 203, 229–30, 244, 251, 259, 268–70

Nesic, Karl, 18

New Economic Policy, 66

New Italian Epic, 285, 356n51

News International, 105–6

New Space book shop, 89

New York City, 200–203, 208

Nicolas Bourbaki (pseudonymous collective mathematician), 177, 347n19

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 138

nomadic art, 142–44

“noncommunication” (Deleuze), 151

novels, 3, 46–47, 197–200

Occupy movement, 35, 38, 204

Oken, Lorenz, 80

Olympia Press, 30–31

Olympic Games (London, 2012), 252

open access publishing, 191

open source business models, 55

Osbaldeston, David, 250

Oury, Jean, 257

Ovan, Sabrina, 181–82, 184

Palestine, 35

pamphlets, 57, 62, 64, 78–80, 85–97, 101–3, 106–8, 193; ephemerality of, 30–31, 85, 94, 97–101; etymology of, 101–2; as monad, 73, 87–90; and self-institution, 91–92, 95; vulnerability of, 91

paper stock, 92–94, 249

Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 285

Pawson, Mark, 86–87

PDF files, 50–51, 345–46n166

Peking Duck Soup (film), 133

Pels, Peter, 76–77

Permild, Verner, 150, 330n152

personality cults, 59–60, 103, 168, 272–79, 283, 298–99, 353n7

Petrella, Angelo, 294

Phillpot, Clive, 9–12, 303n23

Picasso, Pablo, 75

Pietz, William, 76

Piga, Emanuela, 286

Piper, Adrian, 90

piracy, 8

Pollock, Jackson, 153

Popular Book Centre, 104

post-digital publishing, 3, 48–56

Post-Digital Publishing Archive, 53

post-Fordism, 50, 181, 248

Postone, Moishe, 22

Potlatch bulletin, 156

potlatch exchange, 155–57

Power, Nina, 51

press freedom, 172–74

Price, Leah, xii–xiii, 80, 86

printed matter, 78–81, 85–86, 90

printing process 6–8, 42–44, 105

print on demand (POD), 55, 248–51, 350n73

“programmatism,” 21, 26

proletariat, the, 21–24, 63, 133, 160, 164–66, 184–85, 209, 213–14, 282

“prosumers,” 256

Protestantism, 7, 44, 115–16, 120–21, 276

Proust, Marcel, 83–84

pseudonymous authorship, 58, 177–79, 197

publishing industry, 19–20, 41, 43, 45, 54–56, 105

Puchner, Martin, 26, 211

Pussy Riot group, 169

Q (novel), 181–86, 189–96, 278, 294

quotation: as a literary genre, 129; resistance to, 82–83. See also Mao Zedong: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Qur’an, 182

racism, 35, 189

Rancière, Jacques, 62–64, 80–81, 107, 209

rationalism, 19

Raymond, Joad, 93–94

reader, role of, 5–6, 8, 12, 14–15, 19, 32, 44–45, 81–84, 86–87, 108, 130–31, 154, 176, 198, 220–22, 244–45, 254, 256, 302n12

Real Report on the Last Chance to Save Capitalism in Italy, The, 161

Red Army Faction, 134–35

Red Guards, 130–35

Red Republican, 211

Reena Spaulings (novel), 197, 200–203

Reformation, the, 115, 120

Renaissance, the, 47

Return of the Durutti Column, The, 198

“rhizome-book” concept, 58, 109–14, 136–41, 145, 149, 164–66

Rich, Kate, 263

Rising Free (bookshop and press), 102

Rodchenko, Aleksandr, 57, 61, 65, 145, 313–14n11

Rogovin, Nikolai, 144

“root-book” concept, 58, 109–11, 114–16, 121, 126–28, 134–45, 150, 155–57, 165–66, 221

Rose, Margaret, 174

Rose, Mark, 171

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 121

Ruge, Arnold, 170, 214–15

Sacks, Oliver, 235

Saviano, Roberto, 291

Schiller, Friedrich, 84

scrolls, 6, 52, 114, 120, 142

SCUM Manifesto, 28–32, 307n98

Selcer, Daniel, 114

“self-differing medium” (Krauss), 9–10, 232–33, 303n26

self-disclosure, 37

self-publishing, 56–57, 86–87, 90, 94, 98

semiotic systems, 116–17

Seveso disaster (1976), 90–91

Shah of Iran, 134

Shakespeare, William, 149

Sinclair, Iain, 86

Situationist, 61, 90, 102, 104, 149, 151, 154, 158, 161–62, 198–99, 202

Situationist International (SI), 104, 132, 150–63, 197–99, 326n73, 331n155, 336n220

Situationist Times, The (journal), 162–63

Skeet, Jason, 86–87

Skeggs, Beverley, 37

Slater, Howard, 90, 161–62, 252

slavery, 46, 65, 120, 178, 286, 295, 313n11

socialism and print, 16–21, 280

social media, 20, 35–40, 49, 255

Solanas, Valerie, 28–33

Sorel, Georges, 280

Soviet Union, 22

Speculate This!, 181

spells (Artaud), 145–49, 166

Squires, Claire, 45

Stalin, Josef, 190, 272–80

Stallybrass, Peter, 68–69, 76, 142

Statute of Anne (1709), 44

Steiner, George, 45–46

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 149

Stiles, Lane, 4–5

Stracey, Francis, 151

STRIKE! Magazine, 54

Striphas, Ted, 41, 45, 49–50

student movement (UK, 2010–11), 253

Surrealism, 61, 74–76

Tao te Ching, 278

Tarnac 9, 204

Tatlin, Vladimir, 70, 144

Taylorism, 21

Tazartès, Ghédalia, 252

“technotext” (Hayles), 5–6, 10, 234

television, 20

Théorie Communiste (journal), 21–23

Theory of Bloom, The, 220–22

Thévenin, Paule, 148

Thompson, James, 46

Tiempo Muerto (newspaper), 54

Tiqqun (journal), 203–6, 220–22

Tito, Marshal, 289

Tompsett, Fabian, 64, 86, 94, 102–8, 220–22, 240

transgressive writing, 171

transreason and “zaum,” 140–41

Travis, Trish, 41, 79

Trotsky, Leon, 66

Twitter, 4, 18, 51, 56

“unbound publishing,” 53

unidentified narrative objects (UNOs), 283, 290–94

Unpopular Books (publisher), 64, 86, 88, 102–7, 321n162

user-generated content, 237, 244–45, 255–56

“use value,” 71–72, 77

Vaneigem, Raoul, 102, 158

van Mourik Broekman, Pauline, 228–31, 234, 236, 246, 256, 260–61, 263–68

Venegas, Alejo, 115–16, 128

Vernon, James, 18–19

Victoria and Albert Museum, 54

Viénet, René, 133, 326n73

Voltaire, 121, 287

Wagner, Richard, 121

Warhol, Andy, 30–33

Wark, McKenzie, 162

Warner, Sara, 30–31

Washington, George, 295

waste material, 95–96

Watts, Mary Jo, 30

We Are Bad group, 252

Weeks, Kathi, 28, 34

White Overalls movement, 280

Willats, Steven, 263–64

Wired magazine, 94

Wittenborn and Company, 157

Wolman, Gil, 152

Woolf, Virginia, 168, 191–92, 202

Words of the Chairman, The (film), 134–35

workers’ movement, 14–17, 20–26, 46, 63, 161, 256, 284, 334n206

working-class identity, 21–23

Worthington, Pam, 250

Worthington, Simon, 51–52, 228, 247–48, 259, 261, 264–65

Wu Ming (collective pseudonym), 59–60, 190, 272, 274, 278–98; self-portrait, 299

Xing Lu, 130

Yuill, Simon, 37

Zielinski, Siegfried, 230

zines, 54, 98

Žižek, Slavoj, 39, 125

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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.

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