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The year's work in the oddball archive / editors, Jonathan P. Eburne, Judith Roof.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Year's work (Bloomington, Ind.)
- The year's work: studies in fan culture and cultural theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Curiosities and wonders--Archival resources.
- Curiosities and wonders.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (448 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera."-Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology 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, methodology, and content, The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive offers a counterargument to a more reasoned form of storing and recording the avant-garde (or the post-avant-garde), the perverse, the off, the bent, the absurd, the quirky, the weird, and the queer. To do so, it positions itself within the history of mirabilia launched by curiosity cabinets starting in the mid-fifteenth century and continuing to the present day. These archives (or are they counter-archives?) are located in unexpected places-the doorways of Katrina homes, the cavity of a cow, the remnants of extinct animals, an Internet site-and they offer up "alternate modes of knowing" to the traditional archive. "An unruly?and much-needed?model for how to do the archive differently."-Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture "It was a pleasure to read through this collection, and I suspect some of the essays, if not the entire book, will find itself on the syllabus for my Archive and Ephemera graduate course."- Museum Anthropology Review "A finely wrought collection of curiosities... A vital intervention into how we talk about the stuff that surrounds us."-Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-01851-X
- OCLC:
- 933515871
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