What is a book? A neutral container of ideas or a material device that organizes our perception? Writing and Assembly proposes reading writing not as a mere vehicle of thought, but as a technical, visual and political practice whose form matters as much as its content.
Based on four essays that cover Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, Helen DeWitt and Mark Z. Danielewski, among others, Rodríguez Freire explores montage as a critical principle that articulates fragments, interrupts automatisms and makes visible what standardized reading tends to naturalize. The page, the typography, the footnote, the index, the graphic layout: nothing is innocent.
In the face of the commercialization and normalization of academic work, this book vindicates the formal power of the essay as a space for experimentation and resistance. Altering the form is not an aesthetic whim, but an intervention in the modes of production of meaning.
Publisher: Bulk Editores
June 2, 2026
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