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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Thoburn, Nicholas, 1970- Anti-book. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016] (DLC) 2016028615 |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Thoburn |
ISBN: | 9780816699995 0816699992 9780816621965 0816621969 |
OCLC Number: | 951157916 |
Description: | xvi, 372 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. |
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. |
Series Title: | Cultural Critique Books. |
Responsibility: | Nicholas Thoburn. |
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"Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books-to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce."-Monoskop Log "Anti-Book presents a rich and convincingly argued analysis of the disparate ways in which political works engage with and subvert their materiality." -Cultural Studies "Anti-Book makes a significant contribution to current scholarship by expanding the theoretical contexts for artists' books and media projects."-Patrick Greaney, author of Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art"Nicholas Thoburn's socio-material approach, rooted in political theory and critical thought, exposes the complicity between systems of signification in capitalism and books as expressive objects. Drawing on historical examples as well as those of supposedly post-digital print, Thoburn takes apart myths of avant-garde autonomy as well as worn-out claims about resistant media, showing that the 'anti-book' can (still) work as an alternative to commodified culture."-Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles Read more...


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- 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.
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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