Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books-to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce. -Monoskop Log Anti-Book presents a rich and convincingly argued analysis of the disparate ways in which political works engage with and subvert their materiality. -Cultural Studies Anti-Book makes a significant ... Read morecontribution to current scholarship by expanding the theoretical contexts for artists' books and media projects. -Patrick Greaney, author of Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art Nicholas Thoburn's socio-material approach, rooted in political theory and critical thought, exposes the complicity between systems of signification in capitalism and books as expressive objects. Drawing on historical examples as well as those of supposedly post-digital print, Thoburn takes apart myths of avant-garde autonomy as well as worn-out claims about resistant media, showing that the `anti-book' can (still) work as an alternative to commodified culture. -Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles Show Less