Cutting Up Books
A Writing Method In Critical Thinking
$47.38
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2026
Summary
An experimental exploration of writing, creativity, and knowledge-making through the radical act of cutting up books.
Over six months, Ania Malinowska dismantled over four hundred books, reframing their content into 111 poetic epigrams and combining conscious methodical experimentation with the spontaneity of automatic writing. Blending theory, practice, and art, her new book champions this practice of “textrapolation,” framing it as a method of critical composition t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781835953785 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1835953786 |
| Author: | Ania Malinowska |
| Publisher: | Intellect |
| Imprint: | Intellect Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 669g |
| Dimensions: | 170mm x 244mm |
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Critics Review
‘This highly original and visually appealing aesthetic treat presents an experimental method called “textrapolation”—a collection of text collages that function as both poetry and scholarly references.’
– Margret Grebowicz, Missouri University of Science and Technology‘Cutting Up Books is a profound and original contribution to critical theory, experimental art, and cognitive research, offering a revolutionary methodology. Challenging the orthodox paradigms of knowledge production, it systematically critiques conventional ways of knowing. In doing so, it instigates an emergent epistemology that fosters intellectual self-discovery, nurtures creative expression, and tests the very frameworks through which contemporary problems are navigated.’
– Andrew C. Wenaus, University of Western Ontario, Canada‘An exceptional book that introduces and theorizes “textrapolation”—an avant-garde, experimental writing method involving “cutting up books” and collaging text fragments into short textual poems. Positioning this “cannibalistic design” process against contemporary crises, particularly the rise of Artificial Intelligence and digital writing, the book explores new modalities of form, automatism, and critical self-navigation.’
– Émile Fromet de Rosnay, University of VictoriaAnia Malinowska
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.
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