The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive /

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The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university, a corporation, or a governmental holding. In form, method...

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Otros Autores: Eburne, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Paul) (Editor ), Roof, Judith, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
REFERENCE > Encyclopedias.
Curiosites et merveilles > Fonds d'archives.
Curiosities and wonders > Archival resources.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • THE YEAR'S WORK IN THE ODDBALL ARCHIVE
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • SCOPE AND CONTENTS
  • BOX I. SAVING AMERICA: ARCHIVAL PROLIFERATIONS
  • 1 "Pawning, Picking, Storing, Hoarding: Archiving America on Reality Television"
  • 2 "Germ Wars: Dirty Hands, Drinking Lips, and Dixie Cups"
  • 3 "The Archive of the Archive of the Archive: The FEMA Signs of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Veves of Vodoun"
  • BOX II. COLLECTIVE FIGURES
  • 4 "Marcuse's Unreason: The Biology of Revolution"
  • 5 "The Madness of Slavoj Žižek"
  • 6 "Fish Kit"
  • BOX III. UNTIMELY ARCHIVES
  • 7 "The Eighteenth-Century Archives du monde: The Question of Agency in Extinction Stories"
  • 8 "Modernist Heterochrony, Evolutionary Biology, and the Chimera of Time"
  • 9 "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER: INHUMANISM AT THE LITERARY LIMIT"
  • BOX IV. ARCHIVES ACTING OUT
  • 10 "Personifying La Con, or Post Hoax, Ergo Proper Hoax"
  • 11 "The Eleventh Commandment"
  • 12 "The Archive That Knew Too Little: The International Necronautical Society and the Avant-Garde"
  • AFTERWORD "'To Prophesy post hoc': The Curious Afterlives of Oddball Archives"
  • INDEX.

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