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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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Thoburn, Nicholas, author.
Title: Anti-book : on the art and politics of radical publishing / Nicholas Thoburn.
Description: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016] | Series: A cultural critique book | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016028615 (ebook) | ISBN 978-1-4529-5199-7 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Publishers and publishing—Political aspects. | Electronic publishing—Political aspects. | Self-publishing—Political aspects. | Authorship—Political aspects. | Pamphlets—Publishing. | Communist literature—Publishing. | Periodicals—Publishing. | Politics and literature. | Digital media. | Alternative mass media. | BISAC: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. | LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Classification: LCC Z278 (ebook) | DDC 070.5—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016003058