According to Sezgin Boynik, bibliography – the historical materialist study of printed matter – is an inherently democratic and egalitarian way of presenting knowledge. Against contemporary art’s neoliberal notion of subjectivity understood as individualization, Boynik argues in this essay that the orthodox field of bibliography offers us powerful tools to connect different political struggles and collectivize knowledge – through bibliographies with attitude.

What role can publishing play in organizing critique today? This series looks at historical and contemporary practices that approach publishing as an infrastructure for political organization, collective knowledge production, and the formation of counter-publics.