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International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms With large-s cale scholarly projects dedicated to digitizing print-b ased magazines and a concurrent turn towards digital mapping and data visualization, periodicals that were once accessible only in the archive now have the capacity to reach a wider audience, and make visible previously overlooked networks and connections enacted within and across the magazines. International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms: Image, Object, Text offers a unique contribution to the field of periodical studies, while also broadening the scope of purview to consider related content with regards to other relevant printed matter and cultural products, as well as digital archiving strategies. Including interdisciplinary contributions from academics around the world, the volume presents a wide range of approaches to periodicals and printed matter from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Questions of material print culture and the digital realm are considered both via theoretical and more empirical approaches. As a whole, the book considers the pluralism of perspectives that the study of periodicals and printed matter contribute to our historical understanding of various political and social issues, and also devotes attention to the ways in which digital archiving projects can be instrumentalized as a strategy for filling in gaps in the historical record. International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms should be of great interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduates engaged in the study of periodicals, publishing, book history, world literature, digital humanities, media, visual and material culture. Meghan Forbes is currently the C- MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives) Fellow for Central and Eastern Europe at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. Previously, she was Czech Lecturer in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a PhD from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she completed her dissertation, “In the Middle of It All: Prague, Brno, and the Avant-G arde Networks of Interwar Europe.” She is the recipient of numerous grants for her research, including an IIE Fulbright award to Berlin in the 2014–2015 academic year. Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities Series Editors: Marilyn Deegan, Lorna Hughes, Andrew Prescott and Harold Short Digital technologies are increasingly important to arts and humanities research, expanding the horizons of research methods in all aspects of data capture, investi- gation, analysis, modeling, presentation, and dissemination. This important series covers a wide range of disciplines with each volume focusing on a particular area, identifying the ways in which technology impacts specific subjects. The aim is to provide an authoritative reflection of the “state of the art” in technology-e nhanced research methods. The series is critical reading for those already engaged in the digital humanities, and of wider interest to all arts and humanities scholars. Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage Erik Champion Literary Mapping in the Digital Age Edited by David Cooper, Christopher Donaldson and Patricia Murrieta- Flores Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age: “Search All About It!” Paul Gooding Cultural Heritage Communities: Technologies and Challenges Edited by Luigina Ciolfi, Areti Damala, Eva Hornecker, Monika Lechner and Laura Maye Generative Systems Art: The work of Ernest Edmonds Francesca Franco Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities Edited by Agiatis Benardou, Erik Champion, Costis Dallas and Lorna Hughes The Strehlow Archive: Explorations in Old and New Media Hart Cohen Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media Edited by Janelle Jenstad, Mark Kaethler and Jennifer Roberts-S mith New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance Camille Baker The Shape of Data in the Digital Humanities: Modeling Texts and Text- based Resources Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/history/ series/DRAH International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms Image, Object, Text Edited by Meghan Forbes First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Meghan Forbes; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Meghan Forbes to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-i n- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978- 1- 138- 58966- 7 (hbk) ISBN: 978- 0- 429- 49151- 1 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of figures vii Contributors x Introduction 1 MEGHAN FORBES PART I Image 23 1 Analog and digital Nigeria: inheriting serial cultures in the work of Kelani Abass 25 JENNIFER BAJOREK 2 Writing about sound: the early talkie film periodicals of India 45 OLYMPIA BHATT 3 One- time periodicals, unrealized manifestos: little magazines and the ethos of failure 82 NANA ARIEL PART II Object 103 4 Via postal: networked publications in and out of Latin America 105 ZANNA GILBERT 5 The life of others: collecting and archiving the Cuban surveillance regime 133 MARíA A. CABRERA ARúS vi Contents 6 Contemporary art magazines: the archive in the archive 151 CAMILLA SALVANESCHI PART III Text 175 7 A journal of science without boundaries: Ali Suavi’s Ulûm Gazetesi 177 KENAN TEKIN 8 Everyday printed matter: Kurt Schwitters’s experimental typography 200 HANNAH PRöBSTING 9 The sekai- sei of circulation: the “world relevance” of the avant- garde Japanese calligraphy periodical Bokubi (1951–1960) 224 NAOMI KUROMIYA Index 247 Figures 1.1 Kelani Abass, Family Portrait 2 (2013), acrylics and oil on canvas, 122 × 122 × 6 cm 29 1.2 Kelani Abass, Asiko 2 (Family Album Series) (2013), diptych, corrugated cardboard, laminated print, and acrylics on canvas, 91 × 122 × 6 cm each 31 1.3 Kelani Abass, Memoirs (Calendar Series) (2012), corrugated cardboard, laminated print, charcoal and acrylics on canvas, 122 × 122 × 6 cm 32 1.4 Kelani Abass, Oba Gbadebo I (Calendar Series) (2013), corrugated cardboard, laminated print, charcoal and acrylics on canvas, 105 × 122 × 6 cm 33 1.5 Kelani Abass, Casing History 1 (2016), letterpress typecase and digital prints, 36 × 82 cm 35 1.6 Kelani Abass, Making Time 1 (Stamping History Series) (2016), manual hand-n umbering machine on paper, 254 × 363 cm 37 1.7 Kelani Abass, Making Time 1 (Stamping History Series) (2016), detail 38 2.1 DC to AC current converters for talkie machines and “touring talkie outfits” 51 2.2 “Cineglow”: triode vacuum tube for talkie production and exhibition 52 2.3 Canady sound- on- film recording system 54 2.4 Film and talkie “Portable Set” distributor, Lucky Films Syndicate, Calcutta 55 2.5 Superior and “Similar to Western Electric or RCA” sound projectors for theatres, from International Service on Sound Corporation, Bombay 56 2.6 A “loud” defense for silent films: distributor Famous Pictures and its latest silent Indian films 58 2.7 Indo- American Distributing Company, Calcutta, and its latest silent films 59 2.8 Lahore- based distributor for RCA Photophone, Empire Projection and Sound Service 60 viii Figures 2.9 The logo of Lahore-b ased studio Playart Phototone Corporation and its affinity to (RCA) Sound 61 2.10 Playart Phototone’s 1932 talkie film Heer Ranjha 62 2.11 Sonic reputation resonating in Huns Pictures’ 1937 talkie Dharamveer 68 2.12 All about song and sound: November 1941 Filmindia cover, an ode to the popularity of Khazanchi’s music 70 2.13 Singalong song of Khazanchi: “Sawan ke nazare hai” 71 2.14 The singer- actor replaced by the onscreen actor: Manorama credited as the “nightingale” for Bhai (1944) 73 3.1 02010, magazine cover and item (2010) 83 3.2 Kiltartan, magazine cover (1964) 91 3.3 Kiltartan, opening page (1964) 92 3.4 Kiltartan, comics (1964) 93 3.5 Kiltartan, participants (1963–1964) 95 3.6 Kiltartan, manifestary letter (1964) 96 4.1 Edgardo Antonio Vigo, “USA versus Latin American,” published in Hexágono ’71, issue bc (La Plata, 1972) 109 4.2 Edgardo Antonio Vigo, “USA versus Latin American,” published in Hexágono ’71, issue bc (La Plata, 1972) 110 4.3 Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Hexágono ’71, issue cf (La Plata, 1973) 112 4.4 Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Hexágono ’71, issue dg (La Plata, 1974) 113 4.5 Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Hexágono ’71, issue dg (La Plata, 1974) 114 4.6 Cover of Schmuck (1974) 116 4.7 Cover of Hungarian Schmuck (1972) 117 4.8 Cover of Ephemera 1 (Amsterdam, November 1977) 121 4.9 Cover of Ephemera 6 (Amsterdam, April 1978) 123 4.10 Cover of Ephemera 12: Brazil (Amsterdam, October 1978) 124 5.1 Notification of the reservist number and military barrack assigned to a reservist (1960s) 136 5.2 First Census of Workers, receipts (1960) 137 5.3 Worker’s identification card, issued by the Ministry of Communications (1961) 138 5.4 Worker’s identification card for purposes of gaining access to the workers social clubs (1960s) 139 5.5 Men’s ration booklet (1970s) 140 5.6 ID card issued to the members of the CDRs (circa 1961–62) 141 5.7 CNI card with instructions to Cuban citizens on what to spy on and how to report what they saw to the authorities, date unknown (1970s–1980s) 142 5.8 Student’s Accumulative File (1978) 144 6.1 Cover of Parkett’s issue 100/101 (December 2017) 152 6.2 Spines of Parkett, issues 1–100/101 153 6.3 Cabinet magazine “Archive” page 156 Figures ix 6.4 Cabinet magazine “Issues” page 157 6.5 Chimurenga Library “homepage” 166 6.6 Chimurenga Library, installation of Cape Town Central Library, Cape Town (2009) 168 7.1 A page from the letterpress issues of the Ulûm Gazetesi (no 24: 1369) 180 7.2 The first page of the lithographed issues of the Ulûm Gazetesi (no 1:1) 188 8.1 Kurt Schwitters, “Tabelle 1, a–f” 204 8.2 Kurt Schwitters: Fitelberg, 1927. Letterpress, 5 7/16 × 5 1/2' (13.8 × 14 cm) 206 8.3 Kurt Schwitters, poster for Opel-T ag, Frankfurt (1927). Lithograph, 33 1/2 × 23 3/4 inches 207 8.4 Dammerstock-Siedlung Exhibition, 1929 216 8.5 Infopavillon at the entrance to the Dammerstock-Siedlung (2017) 217 9.1 Cover of Bokubi no. 12, featuring Painting No. 3 (1952) by Franz Kline, May 1952. Published by Shodō- shuppansha, Kyoto, Japan 229