[Commlist] Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Cut/Copy/Paste*

Fragments from the History of Bookwork

*Whitney Trettien***

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*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517904098/cutcopypaste/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517904098/cutcopypaste/> _*

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*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.

*Whitney Trettien*is assistant professor of English at the University of 
Pennsylvania. She is coeditor of /Digital Sound Studies/, author of the 
creative print/digital project /Gaffe/Stutter/, and cofounder of the 
digital zine /thresholds/.

*University of Minnesota Press | 2022 | 328pp | 9781517904098 | PB | 
£20.99**

*Price subject to change.

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