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Dr  Nicholas Thoburn - Research

 

Research interests

Specific research interests:

My research, interdisciplinary in nature, emphasises the interaction of economic, technological, and cultural processes and is focused on:

  • The sociology of the book, writing, and digital publishing;
  • Extra-parliamentary social movements;
  • The sociology of objects;
  • Marx, Marxism and communism;
  • Deleuze and Guattari;
  • Social and cultural theory.

Current research projects:

  • A monograph on the media forms of political publishing. Empirically focused on 12 experimental publishing projects, the research explores: the aesthetics of media form; hybridisation of print and digital publishing; maps, metaphors, and diagrams of publishing; the changing nature of the political book; strategies of collective and anonymous authorship.
  • 'Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net', a co-edited journal special issue (with Sas Mays).
  • 'Objects and Materials', a co-edited book of 40 original chapters (with colleagues at CRESC).

 

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