Dialogue
Thu 20–Fri 21 Apr 2023
Talk “From Independent to Intersectional Publishing”
Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
Participants
Talk “From Independent to Intersectional Publishing” at symposium Banal Publishing, Practices, Procedures, Episteme of Digital Self-Publishing in Art, Literature and Science, convened by Elisa Linseisen and Dorothea Walzer
This talk explores the social and political agency of publishing by investigating the micro-politics of making and sharing knowledges from an intersectional feminist perspective. Intersectionality means that oppressions (based in racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, ableism etc.) are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another. There has been much discussion of the political agency of the book as a medium, yet it is often assumed that the book’s political potential extends primarily, indeed if not exclusively, in terms of its content. The focus of this inquiry, however, is the potentially radical, political and emancipatory ways and processes by which a publication is made (authored, edited, printed, bound), disseminated (circulated, described, cataloged), and read (used).
