Sami Sjoberg, Mikko Keskinen & Arja Karhumaa Introduction
1. Book Matters Jan Baetens Olivier Deprez, Books and Company Emily Brennan-Moran & Torsa Ghosal Excessive Tactility of 9/11 Book Memorials Danuta Fjellestad & Sami Sjoberg Performative Materiality of Book Inserts: Two Case Studies Juri Joensuu Mutilating Writing, Damaging Books: Aspects of Literary Destruction Mikko Keskinen The Two-Layered Book and Storyworld, with Transgressions: Graham Rawle’s Overland Juha-Pekka Kilpio Punched Pages: Holes in Experimental Print Literature Oskari Rantala Promethea: Disintegrating the (Comic) Book Object and the Narrative World
2. Book Mediations Stella Bolaki Bound to Matter: Artists’ Books and Illness Experience Kiene Brillenburg Wurth Silence as an Experimental Act in Marlene NourbeSe Philip’s Experimental Long Poem Zong! Wojciech Dr?g The Self as a Database in Digital Biography: David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein Sara Tanderup Linkis Remediating Bookishness in Mark Z. Danielewski’s Enhanced Ebooks Laura Piippo Looking Back to Now: Book as Technology of Remembering the Present. A Case study of Jatkosota-extra by Jaakko Yli-Juonikas
3. Book Designs Leslie Atzmon Gender, Transgression, and Ritual Torah Preparation Zach Dodson Into the Bibliosphere: The Multimodal Narrative Design of KUU, an Interactive Tragedy Katherine Gillieson Performance, Embodiment, Pluralism: New Ontological Spaces of Book Design Pauliina Nykanen & Arja Karhumaa Body Text: The Somatic and Bodily in Reading Zoe Sadokierski & Cecilia Heffer Encountering Lace Narratives: Designing a Hybrid Book to Capture the Complexity of Practitioner-Research. Nick Thoburn & Nick Thurston Papercuts: How We Talk about the Horizons of the Publishable
4. Afterword Johanna Drucker Afterword

Introduction

Sami Sjoberg, Mikko Keskinen and Arja Karhumaa

Opening Experimental Book Objects: The Heterogeneity of the Codex in the Twenty-First Century

I Book Matters

Jan Baetens
Olivier Deprez, Books and Company

Emily Brennan-Moran and Torsa Ghosal
Excessive Tactility of 9/11 Book Memorials

Danuta Fjellestad & Sami Sjoberg

Performative Materiality of Book Inserts: The Case of S. and Personal Effects

Mikko Keskinen
The Two-Layered Book and Storyworld, with Transgressions: Graham Rawle’s Overland

Juri Joensuu
Literary Mutilation: Typographical and Material Abuse in Finnish Experimental Poetry and Book Art

Juha-Pekka Kilpio
Punched Pages: Holes in Experimental Print Literature

Oskari Rantala
The Disintegrating (Comic) Book Object and the End of the Narrative Universe in Promethea

II Book Mediations

Stella Bolaki
Bound to Matter: Artists’ Books and Illness Experience

Laura Piippo

Looking Back to Now: Book as Technology of Remembering the Present in Jatkosota-extra by Jaakko Yli-Juonikas

Wojciech Dr?g
The Dispersed Self, the Database and Digital Biography: David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein

Sara Tanderup Linkis
Performing E-bookness: Remediation and Meta-Mediality in the E-book Edition of Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Fifty Year Sword

III Book Designs

Leslie Atzmon
Gender, Transgression, and Ritual Torah Preparation

Zach Dodson
Bookish Biomes: The Writing and Design of KUU, a Paper Ecosystem

Pauliina Nykanen & Arja Karhumaa
Body Text: Exploring Somatic Devices in the Design of Hybrid Books Fun Primavera and Yours

Zoe Sadokierski & Cecilia Heffer
Encountering Lace Narratives: Designing a Multimodal Book to Capture the Complexity of Practitioner-Research

Nick Thoburn and Nick Thurston
Papercuts: The Horizons of Minor Publishing

Afterword

Johanna Drucker

Direct Objects: Critical Ways to "Think a Book"