{"product_id":"cutting-up-books","title":"Cutting Up Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCutting Up Books - A Writing Method In Critical Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThematically, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver 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. \u003cem\u003eCutting Up Books \u003c\/em\u003eaddresses the crisis of creativity in contemporary academic and cultural practices while responding to\u003cbr\u003e\ncontemporary challenges, including the crises in education and the perceived threat posed by large\u003cbr\u003e\nlanguage models. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57297682563416,"sku":"9781835953785","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781835953785.jpg?v=1778836582","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cutting-up-books","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}