Kenneth Goldsmith
Publications
Ilan Manouach in Review
Ilan Manouach in Review: Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics, edited by Pedro Moura and co-produced with Routledge, is a critical volume of essays on Manouach’s two decades of conceptual comics. The essays draw on art history, media theory, comics studies, and conceptual practice.
The volume takes an interdisciplinary look at Manouach's work, situating it within the broader avant-garde. An international team of contributors engages with the practice from a range of theoretical positions: traditional narratology and aesthetic close readings of individual books; comics' own histories of production, circulation, and reception; disability studies; post-colonial studies; technological criticism; media ecology; ontography; posthumanist philosophy; and questions of materiality and media specificity. The volume addresses readers in comics studies, media studies, media ecology, literature, cultural studies, and visual studies, and was the result of an Echo Chamber open call (now archived).
Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
Edited By Pedro Moura
Copyright 2024
Index
Foreword
01
Introduction: A Critical Situatedness of Comics
Pedro Moura
02
Katz, Noirs & Tintin akei Kongo:
Ilan Manouach’s Critical Manifesto
Xavier Guilbert
03
Ilan Manouach’s Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge:
Ontography and the Past and Future of Stories
Simon Grennan
04
Whitewashing the Smudge: The Politics of Erasure
and Unreadability in Ilan Manouach’s Cascao
Ana Matilde Sousa
05
The Void that Challenged Narrative:
A Poetics of Emptiness in Riki Fermier
Greice Schneider
06
Replacing and Reorganizing:
A Discursive Arc about Cultural Production
Lorenz Ohrmer
07
Reading Childly: Riki Fermier and Cascao
Maaheen Ahmed
08
Disability, Comics and the Shapereader
José Alaniz
09
Shapereader and the Limits of Touch
Ian Hague
10
Blanco: On Blank and Illegible Books
Moritz Kung
11
Manouach Contrabandier: Countering Practices
to Industrial Publishing
Morvandiau
12
Haunted by Tradition:
Ilan Manouach and the Ghosts of BD Past
Barbara Postema
13
[CoCo]: Conceptual Comics and Online Archives
Benoît Crucifix
14
Can Comics Think? Automation on The Cubicle Island
Daniel Worden
15
Ilan Manouach: The Comic Book Hacker
Maria Clara da S. R. Carneiro & Lielson Zeni
16
Afterword: Like a Robot Bereft of Its Function
Xavier Löwenthal
17


