International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms

Meghan Forbes is currently the C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives) Fellow for Central and Eastern Europe at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, USA. Previously, she was Czech Lecturer in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She holds a PhD from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, USA, where she completed her dissertation, "In the Middle of It All: Prague, Brno, and the Avant-Garde Networks of Interwar Europe." She is the recipient of numerous grants for her research, including an IIE Fulbright award to Berlin in the 2014-2015 academic year.

• List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction, Meghan Forbes; Image; 1_Analog and Digital Nigeria: Inheriting Serial Cultures in the Work of Kelani Abass, Jennifer Bajorek; 2_Writing about Sound: The Early Talkie Film Periodicals of India, Olympia Bhatt; 3_One-time Periodicals, Unrealized Manifestos: Little Magazines and the Ethos of Failure, Nana Ariel; Object; 4_ Via Postal: Networked Publications in and out of Latin America, Zanna Gilbert; 5_The Life of Others: Collecting and Archiving the Cuban Surveillance Regime, María A. Cabrera Arús; 6_Contemporary Art Magazines: The Archive in the Archive, Camilla Salvaneschi; Text; 7_A Journal of Science without Boundaries: Ali Suavi’s Ulûm Gazetesi, Kenan Tekin; 8_Everyday Printed Matter: Kurt Schwitters’ Experimental Typography, Hannah Pröbsting; 9_The Sekai-Sei of Circulation: The "World Relevance" of the Avant-Garde Japanese Calligraphy Periodical Bokubi (1951-1960), Naomi Kuromiya