2016
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Mémoires du livre ; vol. 8 no. 1 (2016)
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Tanguy Habrand, « L’édition hors édition : vers un modèle dynamique. Pratiques sauvages, parallèles, sécantes et proscrites », Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, ID : 10.7202/1038028ar
Building on the works of Jacques Dubois ((L’Institution de la littérature, 1978) and of Bernard Mouralis (Les Contre-littératures, 1975), this article presents a typology of production located outside the publishing institution. This dynamic model is concerned with publishing production in a dual sense: it is as much a matter of taking production conditions into consideration as it is of considering the type of product, aspects that are connected by a large number of reciprocal determining factors: one could admit, in effect, that the personal journal is somewhat more the product of a domestic framework, while the thesis, the accordion book and the anti-capitalist tract are partial to other environments. After having isolated production relative to “grey literature” and to certain “professional spheres,” as well as “domestic writing” and “creative pastimes,” the model outlines four specific spaces: “unbound publishing” (pirating and counterfeiting, clandestine publishing, pamphlets and zines), “parallel publishing” (self-publication, vanity publishing, self-publishing), cutting-edge publishing (artist publishing, book as object publishing, publishing in context), and “banned publishing.” Each of these “outsider” worlds, to borrow from Howard S. Becker, represents a specific type of transgression with regards to the conventions of the publishing institution. In order to provide an objective foundation for this categorization, the “institutional standard” has been formalized using criteria put in place by the official authorities who assist publishing (Centre national du livre en France, Promotion des Lettres en Belgique). In this way, it seems that unbound, parallel, cutting-edge and banned publishing, respectively, are closely connected to judicial, economic, commercial and publication breaches.