Communizing Publishing

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 1: Communizing Publishing with Nick Thoburn

For this first episode we have a conversation with Nick Thoburn about politics and aesthetics of experimental publishing, drawing largely from his book Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (2016). Topics covered include print politics and materiality, communizing and media forms, and the changing position of experimental media production.

Nick Thoburn is Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester. He writes about publishing, political theory, social movements, and architecture, and is author of Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (2016) and Deleuze, Marx and Politics (2003).

Nick Thoburn’s ideas about political publishing are developed further in the following texts, freely available online:

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

Twitter, Book, Riot: Post-Digital Publishing against Race

A Crisis of Politics and a Crisis of Media Form’ – an interview about anti-book publishing

Intro / outro music: Fugazi – Bed for the Scraping