The Little Black Schoolbook by Roger Connah – SIGNED – 1st edition – RARE

The Little Black Schoolbook: Don’t Go So Fast You’ll Crash into Roland Barthes Again is a specific pamphlet/booklet authored by the cultural theorist and architectural scholar Roger Connah. It was published in 2010 by Vertigo Press, Ottawa, as part of Connah’s Anti-Library series and came in two versions, white and black. This is the black version. With a limited-run, finding copies, let alone one that is signed, is very rare.

This item is in very good condition.

The text is known for its highly experimental, essayistic approach to cultural theory, playfully colliding architectural discourse with semiotics and post-structuralist thought, particularly the legacy of Roland Barthes. From the paperback’s introduction,

This little book, in its white and black versions, is a collection of many things: analecta, a compendium, an index of useful clues, a small dictionary, an inventory of effects, a set of references, resistances and spontaneities, an active, selected anthology. Possibly more! This twin volume is also an experiment. These books are not only to be read between the lines but added to, intervened and commented on. They have within them texts, words, letters, drawings, maps, sketches, memos, citations, short text messages and miniature essays. This is a cafeteria, a bistro, a restaurant and a menu. A ‘pandaemonium’ for the emerging architectural unconscious!