The Performance of Scholarly Communication: Intervening into the System
Nicholas Knouf
Abstract
While researching JJPS, I attempted to find prior examples of artistic interventions into the scholarly communication system. Indeed, artists have throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries developed their own journals and publications--from the early journals produced by the Dadaists and the Surrealists, to artist's chapbooks, to fanzines, artists have constantly re-appropriated textual forms for their particular purposes. But within the realm of scholarly communication _per se_, the examples are, to my knowledge, much fewer. This fragment of a larger work is meant to catalogue some of the more prominent examples, and ends with a call for more playful forms of representation that push the limits of networked communication.
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