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2015
A first Edit Publication from the midwest—Broken 56 Broken Kindle Screens emerged from the classroom at Northwestern University. In a first course devoted entirely to POD practices, “Print on Demand Poetry: Making Books After the Internet,” this was a first experiment with critical destruction.
This work responds to 56 Broken Kindle Screens by Silvio Lorusso and Sebastian Schmieg. The original gathers precisely what you might expect: 56 images of broken Kindle screens.
Students were given a range of tools: hole-punchers, sharpies, staplers, and the encouragement to tear, stomp, fold, deface, or otherwise destroy the book—all as a means to understand it as an object, with a specific set of material properties and resistances to destruction—a kind of “hands-on” learning. The results were scanned in via low-quality Xerox and reformatted for the same Lulu pocketbook format, a perfectly broken facsimile of the original. The first print run was distributed exclusively to the creators of the work.
POD edition available at cost here.
PDF edition available here.
More info at APOD.li here.
See full 2015 NUPoD course, inventory, and syllabus here.
See follow-up NUPoD 2017 course, catalogue, and syllabus here.
