Annette Gilbert (Ed.)
Texts by Hannes Bajohr, Paul Benzon, K. Antranik Cassem, Bernhard
Cella, Annette Gilbert, Hanna Kuusela, Antoine Lefebvre, Matt
Longabucco, Alessandro Ludovico, Lucas W. Melkane, Anne
Moeglin-Delcroix, Aurélie Noury, Valentina Parisi, Michalis Pichler,
Anna-Sophie Springer, Alexander Starre, Nick Thurston, Rachel Valinsky,
Eva Weinmayr, Vadim Zakharov
"How I Didn't Write Any of My Books"
by Aurélie Noury about Lorem Ipsum, p. 50-61.
What does it mean to publish
today? In the face of a changing media landscape, institutional
upheavals, and discursive shifts in the legal, artistic, and political
fields, concepts of ownership, authorship, work, accessibility, and
publicity are being renegotiated. The field of publishing not only
stands at the intersection of these developments but is also introducing
new ruptures. How the traditional publishing framework has been cast
adrift, and which opportunities are surfacing in its stead, is discussed
here by artists, publishers, and scholars through the examination of
recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and
art scene, where publishing is often part of an encompassing artistic
practice. The number and diversity of projects among the artists,
writers, and publishers concerned with these matters show that it is
time to move the question of publishing from the margin to the center of
aesthetic and academic discourse.