Joshua Calhoun

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

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“‘Toilet paper is the new scroll.:P’"

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Joshua Calhoun University of Wisconsin-Madison

June 03, 2010
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“‘Toilet paper is the new scroll.:P’" bookworm ecology flax form livelavalive paper reuse scat scroll textual instability toilet paper Curator's Note There’s an intriguing Bill and Ted quality to the way Mitchell and Kyle’s conversation bumps i ...

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Re: The People's Republic of Paper: Rag Paper and Material Memory

Combat Palimpsests

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Joshua Calhoun University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tuesday, June 1, 2010 — 2:04 am
Great post, Jon. I like how you connect Combat Paper with numerous examples of historical literature that ask to be read as assemblages of ideas and matter, words and rags. At 2:48 in the second video, one vet watches another work and comments, "That ...
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Re: Nineteenth-Century American Paper: It's Not All Bad!

Sizing Matters

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Joshua Calhoun University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thursday, June 3, 2010 — 2:01 pm
Thanks, Cathleen. Like Tim and Jon, I'm interested in the ways your study revisits and revises some of the old chestnuts of papermaking history. It seems to me that sizing is such an under-researched aspect of historical papermaking. I'm fascin ...
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Re: Red Tape Measures

Looking around the Kafka.be

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Joshua Calhoun University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 — 4:15 am
Looking around the Kafka.be site that you linked, Ben, I was struck by the contact page, where a rather commanding animated graphic depicts people stepping up to a microphone to voice their complaints about excessive bureaucracy. Below is what I'd co ...