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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Nothingism
Description: In this episode of High Theory, Jason Schneiderman talks about Nothingism. A term of his own coinage, a tongue-in-cheek manifesto, nothingism is an invitation to refuse the values of digital culture in favor of the values of print.
You can read more about poetry at the end of print culture in Jason’s new book, entitled Nothingism (Michigan UP, 2025).
In the episode Jaason refers to M.B. Parkes’s book Pause and Effect An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West and the poetry of his teacher Agha Shahid Ali.
Jason Schneider...