The year's work in the oddball archive /
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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| Accés en línia: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Idioma: | English |
| Publicat: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016. |
| Col·lecció: | Year's work (Bloomington, Ind.)
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- 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 Vévés 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.