Publishing as an infrastructural practice
Nicholas Grosso is the founder of Literaturhaus and a PhD candidate at Oxford Brookes University. Working between Rome and New York, he is also the managing editor at Bordighera Press, publishing italianità in North America, nuanced and singular voices from Italy and the diasporic immigrant experience.
Rooted in ongoing PhD research, the study of publishing as infrastructural practice has been informed by over 15 years working in publishing and related fields. Literature and the print book have become decentralized as a core tenet of cultural practice and distinction for a variety of reasons, not limited to the rise of print on demand and self-publishing platforms as well as the introduction of new technologies and their corresponding practices. Despite the decline in prominence of publishing, the function of narrative continues to be an essential method of organizing society. The project seeks to incorporate and combine the tools of publishing to introduce narrative into culture with practices of architecture to physically shape our worlds and patterns of behavior.