A short review of Nicholas Thoburn's monograph Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing, published by Minnesota University Press in 2016.
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From the review:
"This book's subtitle, rather than its main title, names the operative category of [Thoburn's] method: the act and outcomes of publishing are together taken as a form – an organizational form – and how certain such forms are more or less conducive to a radical politics of openness determines their potential value to what Thoburn calls a ‘communism of writing’ (p. 213). This is a book about publishing experiments that counter the authority of what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari label ‘the root-book’ (p. 58) by making public – that base sense of the verb ‘to publish’ – the ‘experimental condition of communist publishing’ (p. 13)."
