Overview
Presenting what heterms ""a communism of textual matter,"" Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounterbetween political thought and experimental writing and publishing. He takes a""post-digital"" approach to a wide array of textual media forms, inviting us tochallenge the commodity form of books-to stop imagining books as transcendentintellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce.
Full Product Details
Author: Nicholas Thoburn
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 5.10cm
, Length: 21.60cm
ISBN: 9780816699995
ISBN 10: 0816699992
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 15 December 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
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
<i>Anti-Book</i> makes a significant contribution to current scholarship by expanding the theoretical contexts for artists' books and media projects. Patrick Greaney, author of <i>Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art</i></p> 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</p>
Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books--to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce. --<i>Monoskop Log</i></p>
Author Information
Nicholas Thoburn is senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Deleuze, Marx and Politics.
