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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Nicholas ThoburnPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780816621965ISBN 10: 0816621969 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 15 December 2016 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviewsThoburn 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 InformationNicholas Thoburn is senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Deleuze, Marx and Politics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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