Year's Work in the Oddball Archive (eBook)

amp;lt;P>Jonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Penn State. He is the author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime.</P><P>Judith Roof is William Shakespeare Chair of English at Rice University and author of many books on feminism and contemporary culture.</P>

<P>Box I: Saving America: Archival Proliferations. Includes:<BR>1. Joseph Campana and Tedd Bale, "Pawning, Picking, Storing, Hoarding: Archiving America on Reality Television."<BR> An examination of the massive reality television fixation on picking, storing, pawning, and hoarding. <BR>2. Atia Sattar, "Germ Wars: Dirty Hands, Drinking Lips and Dixie Cups"<BR> A discussion of germs, gender, and the Dixie Cup Archive.<BR>3. Beth McCoy, "The Archive of the Archive of the Archive: The FEMA Signs of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Vévé of Vodoun." <BR>A comparison of Veve and FEMA markings in post-Katrina New Orleans.<BR>Box II: Collective Figures. Includes:<BR>4. Robin Blyn, "Marcuse's Unreason: The Biology of Revolution"<BR> Rereading Marcuse’s odd positioning in the world of political philosophy. <BR>5. Dennis Allen, "The Madness of Slavoj Žižek."<BR> Ponders the ubiquity of Slavoj Žižek.<BR>6. Jonathan P. Eburne, "Fish Kit."<BR> A look at David Lynch’s extra-cinematic art of assemblage and dissection.<BR>Box III: Untimely Archives. Includes:<BR>7. Timothy Sweet, "The Eighteenth-Century Archives du Monde: The Question of Agency in Extinction Stories"<BR>Considers Native American and Colonial theories for the extinction of dinosaurs.<BR>8. Charles Tung, "Modernist Heterochrony, Evolutionary Biology, and the Chimera of Time."<BR> How bodies, genes, and H.G. Wells play with heterochronies.<BR>9. Aaron Jaffe, "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER: Information at the Literary Limit."<BR> What happens when the archive has too much and not enough.<BR>Box IV: Archives Acting Out. Includes:<BR>10. Judith Roof, "Personifying La Con, or Post-Hoax Ergo Proper Hoax"<BR> Anatomizes hoaxes and their dependence on an archive.<BR>11. Grant Aubrey Farred, "The Eleventh Commandment."<BR> Being revolutionary with Thomas Paine and Saint Paul.<BR>12. Seth Morton, "The Archive that Knew Too Little: The International Necronautical Society and the Avant-Garde."<BR> What happens when the INS plays with itself.<BR>Archival Supplement: Afterword. Includes:<BR>David L. Martin, "The Oddball Archive: Politics, Performance, Agency"<BR> A retrospective.</P>