Thurston, N (2021) The Publishing Self: The Praxis of Self-Publishing in a Mediatised Era. In: Colby, G, Marczewska, K and Wilson, L, (eds.) The Contemporary Small Press. Palgrave Macmillan , pp. 135-152. ISBN 978-3-030-48783-6
Abstract
Coming out of Thurston’s experience with the writers’ collective and independent small press Information As Material, this chapter points toward five things. First, how we might distinguish certain kinds of self-publishing by the way in which they problematise the subject-status of the self at work. Second, how the digital mediatisation of writing technologies outside the context of the language arts is casting some kind of technical foreshadow in front of new writing generally. Third, what might be interesting about recontextualising our experiences of mediatised media as literature or art. Fourth, how those aesthetic possibilities beg the question, ‘but what kind of realism is it?’ And finally, how the critical frameworks with which we attend to acts of publishing need to shift from analysing objects to analysing processes.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s) under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland. This is an author produced version of a book chapter published in The Contemporary Small Press. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2020 09:58 |
Last Modified: | 18 May 2023 09:16 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-030-48784-3_7 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155891 |