The Experimental Book Object

Materiality, Media, Design
Herausgeber: Karhumaa, Arja; Sjöberg, Sami; Keskinen, Mikko

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Produktbeschreibung

The Experimental Book Object shows why and how books matter in the 21st century. The volume offers a multifaceted and multidisciplinary view of the book object, the book design and publishing processes, and their significance in the digital age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 643g
• ISBN-13: 9781032368818
• ISBN-10: 1032368810
• Artikelnr.: 69115502

Autorenporträt

Sami Sjöberg is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research focuses on avant-garde and experimental literature, especially in relation to science and epistemology. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Avant-Garde Studies and the author of The Vanguard Messiah: Lettrism between Jewish Mysticism and the Avant-Garde (2015). Mikko Keskinen is Professor of Comparative Literature (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). His main research interests include narrative theory, sound studies, experimental literature, and intermediality. Keskinen is the author of Response, Resistance, Deconstruction (1998) and Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction (2008). He has co-edited a book on the collage novel (2018) and two journal issues on "the ubique and unique book" (Image & Narrative, 2019). Arja Karhumaa is a graphic designer, text artist, and Associate Professor in Visual Communication Design at Aalto University, Finland. Their work spans across experimental writing, visual poetry, typography, and publishing. Karhumaa is the author and designer of the artistic research Epä/igenesis (2021) featuring the artist book Epägenesis: Katalogi X, a catalogue of their experimental writing.

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionSami Sjöberg, Mikko Keskinen and Arja KarhumaaOpening
Experimental Book Objects: The Heterogeneity of the Codex in the
Twenty-First CenturyI Book MattersJan Baetens, Olivier Deprez, Books and
CompanyEmily Brennan-Moran and Torsa Ghosal, Excessive Tactility of 9/11
Book MemorialsDanuta Fjellestad & Sami SjöbergPerformative Materiality of
Book Inserts: The Case of S. and Personal EffectsMikko Keskinen, The
Two-Layered Book and Storyworld, with Transgressions: Graham Rawle's
OverlandJuri Joensuu, Literary Mutilation: Typographical and Material Abuse
in Finnish Experimental Poetry and Book ArtJuha-Pekka Kilpiö, Punched
Pages: Holes in Experimental Print LiteratureOskari Rantala, The
Disintegrating (Comic) Book Object and the End of the Narrative Universe in
PrometheaII Book MediationsStella Bolaki, Bound to Matter: Artists' Books
and Illness ExperienceLaura PiippoLooking Back to Now: Book as Technology
of Remembering the Present in Jatkosota-extra by Jaakko Yli-Juonikas
Wojciech Dr?g, The Dispersed Self, the Database and Digital Biography:
David Clark's 88 Constellations for WittgensteinSara Tanderup Linkis,
Performing E-bookness: Remediation and Meta-Mediality in the E-book Edition
of Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year SwordIII Book DesignsLeslie Atzmon,
Gender, Transgression, and Ritual Torah PreparationZach Dodson, Bookish
Biomes: The Writing and Design of KUU, a Paper EcosystemPauliina Nykänen &
Arja Karhumaa, Body Text: Exploring Somatic Devices in the Design of Hybrid
Books Fun Primavera and YoursZoë Sadokierski & Cecilia Heffer,
Encountering Lace Narratives: Designing a Multimodal Book to Capture the
Complexity of Practitioner-ResearchNick Thoburn and Nick Thurston,
Papercuts: The Horizons of Minor PublishingAfterwordJohanna DruckerDirect
Objects: Critical Ways to Think a Book