Anti-Book Thoburn PH D Nicholas University of Manchester UK
Anti-Book Thoburn PH D Nicholas University of Manchester UK No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Not exactly. Taking a…
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Anti-Book Thoburn PH D Nicholas University of Manchester UK
No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Not exactly.
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. 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. 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