Viral cultures : activist archiving in the age of AIDS / Marika Cifor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cifor, Marika, 1986- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

ACT UP (Organization).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, Marika Cifor explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. For the Record: AIDS, Archives, and Vital Nostalgia

"Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me!" ACT UP Nostalgia and the Meaning of HIV/AIDS

How to ACT UP: AIDS Archival Temporalities and the (Anti-)Institutionalization of the ACT UP/New York Records

An Archival Cure: Remedy, Care, and Curation with the Visual AIDS Archive

Status = Undetectable: Liminality and Archival Exhibitions in the Age of Survivability

Going Viral: Mobilizing AIDS Archives in Digital Cultures

Epilogue: How to Survive Another Plague

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Cifor, Marika Viral Cultures

ISBN:

1-4529-6355-X

1-4529-6354-1

OCLC:

1285873472