Nicholas Thoburn : Anti-Book - On Materiality of Communist Publishing
Channel: pmilat
Date: 2014-05-03

*** April 28, 2014  @ Booksa, Zagreb ***

INTRO : Branka Ćurčić & Savo Romčević [00:00 - 11:25]
LECTURE :  Nicholas Thoburn [11:25 - 57:40]


"This is not book against the book...", is the sentences with which the Anti-Book opens. One of the questions which we posed to ourselves is what would be a political figure of an anti-book? Contextualization of this question is represented by problematization of acting of small-press publishers today, which practices are meeting wider problematics of austerity measures, crisis of publishing, academy and independent production, as well as of readership/audience, especially when in their practices it is inevitably included self/auto-reflection of very translation, editing, publishing and textual aspects. Therefore, where would be the place of political intervention of specific small-press projects when publishing and thought of the book is in question, i.e. what are the potentials for forming self-reflexive and critical space of such production?

Together with the author, we are trying to articulate this contribution to publishing of the book, which could be characterized as accenting and going back to the mentioned place of that 'against' the book, from which we are trying to comprehend full materiality of this book which, starting from its title, deals with the problem of the anti-book. That contribution we can not see differently then as the compound of open questions which we are trying to share with the present audience.

Nicholas Thoburn is sociologist from UK, teaching at the University of Manchester. He is the author of the book Deleuze, Marx and Politics (Routledge, 2003). Anti-Book is his second book.

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The book promotions and lectures are organized by kuda.org (Novi Sad) with organizations: Ignorant Schoolmaster from Belgrade, club Booksa and organization Kulturtreger, and with Multimedia Institute mi2 from Zagreb.

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