Cutting Up Books: A Writing Method In Critical Thinking - Couverture souple

Malinowska, Ania

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1835953786 ISBN 13 : 9781835953785

Editeur : Intellect Books, 2026

Synopsis

Cutting Up Books - A Writing Method In Critical Thinking is an experimental exploration of writing, creativity, and knowledge-making through the radical act of cutting up books. Blending theory, practice, and art, it proposes textrapolation: a method of critical composition that uses destruction as a form of discovery.

Drawing on traditions of the cut-up, collage, and automatic writing, the book turns the materiality of text into a thinking tool, showing how breaking and reassembling language can generate new modes of understanding.

Thematically, it connects literary experimentation with philosophy, media theory, and the crisis of creativity in the age of artificial intelligence. It reconsiders authorship, education, and the function of books in a culture increasingly defined by templates, automation, and cognitive fatigue. Combining academic reflection with poetic fragments and visual-textual compositions to move between the scholarly and the personal, the analog and the algorithmic.

Over six months, Ania Malinowska dismantled over 400 books, reframing their content into 111 poetic epigrams and combining conscious methodical experimentation with the spontaneity of automatic writing. Cutting Up Books addresses the crisis of creativity in contemporary academic and cultural practices while responding to
contemporary challenges, including the crises in education and the perceived threat posed by large
language models.

The result is both a manifesto and a manual: a hybrid text that invites readers to become practitioners. It encourages intellectual play, intuition, and embodied experimentation as ways of reanimating writing and thought. At once critical and performative, the book demonstrates how cutting up can be a method of thinking, creating, and living differently.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ania Malinowska is a culture theorist, author and professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (and formerly at the University of Silesia in Poland). She has published widely on media and emotions, cultural robotics, and the technologies of social relations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Intellect Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1835953786
• ISBN 13: 9781835953785
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible