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Author Trettien, Whitney, author.

Title Cut/copy/paste : fragments from the history of bookwork / Whitney Trettien.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnnesota Press, 2021
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Note Description based on print version record.
Summary How do early modern media underlie today's digital creativity? In Cut/Copy/Paste, 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, Cut/Copy/Paste enacts for readers what Trettien argues: that digital forms have the potential to decenter patriarchal histories of print.From the religious household of Little Gidding--whose biblical concordances and manuscripts exemplify protofeminist media innovation--to the queer poetic assemblages of Edward Benlowes and the fragment albums of former shoemaker John Bagford, Cut/Copy/Paste demonstrates history's relevance to our understanding of current media. Tracing the lives and afterlives of amateur "bookwork," 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.With many of Cut/Copy/Paste'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.
Subject Assemblage (Art)
Book industries and trade -- History.
Books.
Digital media.
Books
Assemblage (Art)
Livres -- Industrie -- Histoire.
Livres.
Médias numériques.
books.
Digital media
Books
Book industries and trade
Assemblage (Art)
Indexed Term Media studies
Genre/Form History
Added Author Project Muse. distributor.
Other Form: Print version: 1517904099 9781517904098 1517904080 9781517904081 (OCoLC)1246145125
ISBN 9781517904098 (electronic bk.)
9781452966311 (electronic bk.)
1452966311 (electronic bk.)
1517904099 (electronic bk.)
9781452966304 (electronic bk.)
1452966303 (electronic bk.)
1517904080
9781517904081
Standard No. AU@ 000070509989

 
    
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