Beskrivelse
Presenting what he terms «a communism of textual matter,» Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing. He takes a «post-digital» approach to a wide array of textual media forms, inviting us to challenge the commodity form of books-to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce.
«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
«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
