Viral cultures : activist archiving in the age of AIDS / Marika Cifor.

  • Cifor, Marika, 1986-
Date:
[2022]
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Description

"Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, Marika Cifor explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]

Physical description

297 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contributors

Contents

Introduction. For the Record: AIDS, Archives, and Vital Nostalgia -- "Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me!" ACT UP Nostalgia and the Meaning of HIV/AIDS -- How to ACT UP: AIDS Archival Temporalities and the (Anti-)Institutionalization of the ACT UP/New York Records -- An Archival Cure: Remedy, Care, and Curation with the Visual AIDS Archive -- Status = Undetectable: Liminality and Archival Exhibitions in the Age of Survivability -- Going Viral: Mobilizing AIDS Archives in Digital Cultures -- Epilogue: How to Survive Another Plague -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN

  • 9781517909369
  • 1517909368