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  title info:
    title: Anti-book
    sub title: on the art and politics of radical publishing
  name:
    name part: Thoburn, Nicholas
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "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"--
  table of contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
  note: Nicholas Thoburn.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Publishers and publishing
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Electronic publishing
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Self-publishing
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Pamphlets
    topic: Publishing
  subject:
    topic: Communist literature
    topic: Publishing
  subject:
    topic: Periodicals
    topic: Publishing
  subject:
    topic: Politics and literature
  subject:
    topic: Digital media
  subject:
    topic: Alternative mass media
  subject:
    topic: Édition électronique
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Édition à compte d'auteur
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Art d'écrire
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Entreprises de presse
  subject:
    topic: Politique et littérature
  subject:
    topic: Médias numériques
  subject:
    topic: Médias alternatifs
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Books & Reading
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Semiotics & Theory
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Media Studies
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Journalism
  subject:
    topic: Alternative mass media
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Digital media
  subject:
    topic: Pamphlets
    topic: Publishing
  subject:
    topic: Periodicals
    topic: Publishing
  subject:
    topic: Politics and literature
  subject:
    topic: Publishers and publishing
    topic: Political aspects
  classification: Z278
  classification: 070.5
  classification: LIT007000 LIT006000 SOC052000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Anti-book
    name:
      name part: Thoburn, Nicholas, 1970-
    origin info:
      publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
    identifier: (DLC) 2016003058
  identifier: 9781452951980
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  identifier: 22573/ctt1j7kj13 JSTOR
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  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1j7x9vm
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160620
    record change date: 20230103223343.0
    record identifier: in00004634950
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng