Book Launch – ANTI-BOOK: Communist Forms in Experimental Publishing
A talk and book launch by Nick Thoburn
#ANTIBOOK
Friday 2nd March 2018, 8pm at Anagram Books, 35 Lausitzer Str, 10999
Berlin
Facebook RSVP https://www.facebook.com/events/190513991533035/
The talk will launch Nick Thoburn’s new book, Anti-Book: On the Art and
Politics of Radical Publishing (University of Minnesota Press) ISBN
978-0816621965. 392 pages, 14 b&w photos, 13 colour plates. Copies of
Anti-Book will be available at the launch for a reduced price of €18.
Simon Worthington from Mute magazine will follow Nick’s talk with an
open Q and A.
To accompany the launch Mute magazine will make additions to its
‘Radical Publishing Archive’ with artifacts on display in the Anagram
Books showroom and online https://mute-publishing.github.io/archive/
The diffusion of digital media has led not so much to the death of the
book as the multiplication of publishing forms and processes, where
print is at once displaced and given a new impetus. We find in artists’
publishing, small press communism, conceptual writing, and other fields,
a renewed attention to the ‘media-specific practices’ of print, to their
hybridisation with digital platforms, and to techniques of the
capitalist capture of text. This ‘post-digital’ condition is the basis
for this talk on the communist media forms that inhere in experimental
publishing.
Too often we think of books as transcendent intellectual, political, and
aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce, or imagine, against ascendant
screen technologies, that the physical materiality of books is in itself
enough to ground a resistant media. This talk calls for a more complex
and critical relation between ideas and the many materialities and forms
of publishing. Focusing on experimental practice, it will attend in
particular to two themes developed in Anti-Book – the ‘communist object’
and ‘diagrammatic publishing’.
Anti-Book can be purchased here:
EURO, €28 http://linkme2.net/x0
USD, $30 http://linkme2.net/x1
GBP, £22 http://linkme2.net/x2
*About the author* @NickThoburn
Anti-Book is Nick Thoburn’s second book. He has also published Deleuze,
Marx and Politics, and co-edited Objects and Materials, Deleuze and
Politics, and Franco Berardi’s After the Future. He teaches in the
Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester and sits on the
editorial board of the culture and politics journal New Formations. Many
of his publications can be found on Academia.edu
https://manchester.academia.edu/NicholasThoburn
Thank you to Angram Books for kindly hosting this event at their Berlin
showroom. Anagram Books are a European book distributor.
http://anagrambooks.com/
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