Anti-Book On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing |
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| Author:
| Thoburn, Nicholas |
| Series title: | Cultural Critique Bks. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-9999-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.