March 2017 Academic & Specialist University of Minnesota Press

Cultural Critique Books

Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing Nicholas Thoburn

Cultural Critique Books

Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing
Nicholas Thoburn


Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Mar 2017 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816621965 | 368pp | 215x139mm | RFB | AUD$44.99, NZD$54.99
Hardback | Feb 2017 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816699995 | 368pp | 216x140mm | RFB | AUD$157.99, NZD$189.00

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.