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This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions of this clunky office machine a source of fear, rage, dread, and disappointment. But eventually, xerography democratized print culture by making it convenient and affordable for renegade publishers, zinesters, artists, punks, anarchists, queers, feminists, street activists, and others to publish their work and to get their messages out on the street. The xerographic copier adjusted the lived and imagined margins of society, Eichhorn argues, by supporting artistic and political expression and mobilizing subcultural movements. Xerographic copy machines are now defunct. Office copiers are digital, and activists rely on social media more than photocopied posters. And yet, Eichhorn argues, even though we now live in a post-xerographic era, the grassroots aesthetics and political legacy of xerography persists.

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• Full title: Adjusted Margin
• Subtitle: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
• Author: Eichhorn, Kate (Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies, The New School)
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780262033961
• ISBN: 0262033968
• ID: 02933296
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 460 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. February 2016

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