LEADER 03966oam 22004814a 450 001 9910154293003321 005 20240123155914.0 010 $a1-4529-5198-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971546 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4525981 035 $a(OCoLC)952139310 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54180 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971546 100 $a20160613d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnti-Book$b[electronic resource] $eOn the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing /$fNicholas Thoburn 210 1$aMinneapolis, Minnesota ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (398 pages) 225 0 $aA cultural critique book 311 $a0-8166-2196-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. One Manifesto Less: Material Text and the Anti-Book -- 2. Communist Objects and Small Press Pamphlets -- 3. Root, Fascicle, Rhizome: Forms and Passions of the Political Book -- 4. What Matter Who's Speaking? The Politics of Anonymous Authorship -- 5. Proud to be Flesh: Diagrammatic Publishing in Mute Magazine -- 6. Unidentified Narrative Objects: Wu Ming's Political Mythopoesis -- Notes -- Index. 330 $a"No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms "a communism of textual matter," Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing, shifting the politics of text from an exclusive concern with content and meaning to the media forms and social relations by which text is produced and consumed. Taking a "post-digital" approach in considering a wide array of textual media forms, Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books--to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce. His critique is, instead, one immersed in the many materialities of text. Anti-Book engages with an array of writing and publishing projects, including Antonin Artaud's paper gris-gris and Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto, Guy Debord's sandpaper-bound Memoires, the collective novelist Wu Ming, and the digital/print hybrid of Mute magazine. Empirically grounded, it is also a major achievement in expressing a political philosophy of writing and publishing, where the materiality of text is interlaced with conceptual production. Each chapter investigates a different form of textual media in concert with a particular concept: the small-press pamphlet as "communist object," the magazine as "diagrammatic publishing," political books in the modes of "root" and "rhizome," the "multiple single" of anonymous authorship, and myth as "unidentified narrative object." An absorbingly written contribution to contemporary media theory in all its manifestations, Anti-Book will enrich current debates about radical publishing, artists' books and other new genre and media forms in alternative media, art publishing, media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, and social and political theory"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies$2bisacsh 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory$2bisacsh 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading$2bisacsh 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. 676 $a070.5 686 $aLIT007000$aLIT006000$aSOC052000$2bisacsh 700 $aThoburn$b Nicholas$f1970-$01249576 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154293003321 996 $aAnti-Book$92895729 997 $aUNINA