The year's work in the oddball archive / edited by Jonathan P. Eburne and Judith Roof.

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TextSeries: Year's work (Bloomington, Ind.)Publication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

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9780253018519
025301851X

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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 V�ev�es of Vodoun" -- BOX II. COLLECTIVE FIGURES -- 4 "Marcuse's Unreason: The Biology of Revolution" -- 5 "The Madness of Slavoj �Zi�zek" -- 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.

Summary: 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.

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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, 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.

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