Will Straw
Well-researched and highly readable, Adjusted Margin sets the photocopier, that most ubiquitous and unnoticed artifact of twentieth-century life, within new histories of activism and artistic transgression. Kate Eichhorn's book will take its place alongside other superior examples of the new media archaeology, like Darren Wershler-Henry's The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting and Sumanth Gopinath's The Ringtone Dialectic.
Marcus Boon
Kate Eichhorn's Adjusted Margin is a marvelous media archaeology of the copy machine and the subcultures that proliferated around it over the last fifty years, a profound meditation on the fate of the 'recently outmoded' in the age of digital replication, and a toolbox of strategies for activists working with the weird materiality of copies today.
Endorsement
Well-researched and highly readable, Adjusted Margin sets the photocopier, that most ubiquitous and unnoticed artifact of twentieth-century life, within new histories of activism and artistic transgression. Kate Eichhorn's book will take its place alongside other superior examples of the new media archaeology, like Darren Wershler-Henry's The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting and Sumanth Gopinath's The Ringtone Dialectic.
Will Straw, Professor of Communications, McGill University
From the Publisher
Kate Eichhorn's Adjusted Margin is a marvelous media archaeology of the copy machine and the subcultures that proliferated around it over the last fifty years, a profound meditation on the fate of the 'recently outmoded' in the age of digital replication, and a toolbox of strategies for activists working with the weird materiality of copies today.
Marcus Boon, Professor of English, York University; author of
In Praise of CopyingWell-researched and highly readable, Adjusted Margin sets the photocopier, that most ubiquitous and unnoticed artifact of twentieth-century life, within new histories of activism and artistic transgression. Kate Eichhorn's book will take its place alongside other superior examples of the new media archaeology, like Darren Wershler-Henry's The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting and Sumanth Gopinath's The Ringtone Dialectic.
Will Straw, Professor of Communications, McGill University