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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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"It was a pleasure to read through this collection, and I suspect some of the essays, if not the entire book, will find itself on the syllabus for my Archive and Ephemera graduate course."Museum Anthropology Review "An unrulyand much-neededmodel for how to do the archive differently."Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture "A finely wrought collection of curiosities, The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive presents a surprising and original contribution that stretches our understanding of what constitutes an archive and how to best make use of it. By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera, each of which resolutely resists straight-forward methodologies, remaining all the while serious and deeply engaged. A vital intervention into how we talk about the stuff that surrounds us."Colin Dickey, co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology

Box I Saving America: Archival Proliferations
1(114)
1 "Pawning, Picking, Storing, Hoarding: Archiving America on Reality Television"
8(38)
Joseph Campana
Theodore Bale
An examination of the massive reality television fixation on picking, storing, pawning, and hoarding
2 "Germ Wars: Dirty Hands, Drinking Lips, and Dixie Cups"
46(36)
Atia Sattar
A discussion of germs, gender, and the Dixie cup archive
3 "The Archive of the Archive of the Archive: The Fema Signs of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Veves of Vodoun"
82(33)
Beth A. McCoy
A comparison of veves and Fema signs in post-Katrina New Orleans
Box II Collective Figures
115(98)
4 "Marcuse's Unreason: The Biology of Revolution"
123(27)
Robin Blyn
Rereading Marcuse's odd positioning in the world of political philosophy
5 "The Madness of Slavoj Zizek"
150(28)
Dennis Allen
Ponders the ubiquity of Zizek
6 "Fish Kit"
178(35)
Jonathan P. Eburne
A look at David Lynch's extracinematic art of assemblage and dissection
Box III Untimely Archives
213(94)
7 "The Eighteenth-Century Archives du monde: The Question of Agency in Extinction Stories"
219(27)
Timothy Sweet
Considers Native American and Colonial theories for the extinction of dinosaurs
8 "Modernist Heterochrony, Evolutionary Biology, and the Chimera of Time"
246(33)
Charles M. Tung
How bodies, genes, and H. G. Wells play with heterochronies
9 "There Is As Yet Insufficient Data For A Meaningful Answer: Inhumanism At The Literary Limit"
279(28)
Aaron Jaffe
What happens when the archive has too much and not enough
Box IV Archives Acting Out
307(84)
10 "Personifying La Con, or Post Hoax, Ergo Proper Hoax"
313(23)
Judith Roof
Anatomizes hoaxes and their dependence on an archive
11 "The Eleventh Commandment"
336(28)
Grant Farred
Being revolutionary with Thomas Paine and Saint Paul
11 "The Archive That Knew Too Little: The International Necronautical Society and the Avant-Garde"
364(27)
Seth Morton
What happens when the ins plays with itself
Afterword
"`To Prophesy post hoc': The Curious Afterlives of Oddball Archives"
391(18)
David L. Martin
Index 409
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. Judith Roof is William Shakespeare Chair of English at Rice University and author of many books on feminism and contemporary culture.