Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork - Softcover

Trettien, Whitney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517904099 ISBN 13: 9781517904098

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

<b>How do early modern media underlie today&#8217;s digital creativity?&#160;</b><br><br> In <i>Cut/Copy/Paste</i>, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collaboratories where paper media were cut up and reassembled into radical, bespoke publications. Bringing these long-forgotten objects back to life through hand-curated digital resources, Trettien shows how early experimental book hacks speak to the contemporary conditions of digital scholarship and publishing. As a mixed-media artifact itself, <i>Cut/Copy/Paste</i> enacts for readers what Trettien argues: that digital forms have the potential to decenter patriarchal histories of print.<br><br><br><br>From the religious household of Little Gidding&#8212;whose biblical concordances and manuscripts exemplify protofeminist media innovation&#8212;to the queer poetic assemblages of Edward Benlowes and the fragment albums of former shoemaker John Bagford, <i>Cut/Copy/Paste</i> demonstrates history&#8217;s relevance to our understanding of current media. Tracing the lives and afterlives of amateur &#8220;bookwork,&#8221; Trettien creates a method for identifying and comprehending hybrid objects that resist familiar bibliographic and literary categories. In the process, she bears witness to the deep history of radical publishing with fragments and found materials.<br><br><br><br>With many of <i>Cut/Copy/Paste</i>&#8217;s digital resources left thrillingly open for additions and revisions, this book reimagines our ideas of publication while fostering a spirit of generosity and inclusivity. An open invitation to cut, copy, and paste different histories, it is an inspiration for students of publishing or the digital humanities, as well as anyone interested in the past, present, and future of creativity.<br><br>

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Whitney Trettien is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is coeditor of <i>Digital Sound Studies</i>, author of the creative print/digital project <i>Gaffe/Stutter</i>, and cofounder of the digital zine <i>thresholds</i>.&#160;<br><br>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1517904099
• ISBN 13: 9781517904098
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324
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