We do believe that publishing books is above all a cultural work (and only in one of its aspects – an ordinary economic activity), and we also think that the experiment is the best way towards breakthroughs in this direction – be it an experiment with the contents or the forms of the cultural products,… More
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CRITIQUE AND HUMANISM
Experiments about the Content
Theatre of Thought, or How an Experiment Started as Individual and Ended-up as a Group Experiment
In 2011-2012, after the publication by Snejanka Mihaylova of her art-book Theatre of Thoughts (2011, ISBN 9789545871559, in English), and during almost an year, we worked collectively (in open and in closed types of workshops) on the subject of a “theatre of thought”, and how such an idea could help in our strive for transforming… More
Experiments about the Professional Field
Bulgarian Society of Publishers in Humanities
At the end of 2006 Antoaneta Koleva, director of the publishing house, together with Malina Tomova (1950-2011), director of Stigmati Publishing House, initiated discussions with colleagues publishers of books in humanities and exquisite elite fiction, incl. two reviews and a literary newspaper. The idea was to establish a type of organization aiming at helping the… More
Experiments about the Form
We dressed-up in a special manner the cult book of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gatari in Bulgarian
In collaboration with Yana Levieva, the leading book-design in Bulgaria, we have been experimenting since 2009 with the form in which our editions reach the audience. One of our bravest experiments was the publication of One Thousand Plateaus by Gilled Deleuze and felix Guattari (published in 2009). The book was published in a white cover… More
Experiments about the Publics
We create booktrailers … with you!
During the last decade we have been trying to experiment in our work, as we believe, first, that publiahing books is above all a cultural work (and only in one aspect – an economic activity), and because we think that the meaning of a cultural work is to be a patient effort of expanding the… More