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Time-Delay Tamizdat

Sun, November 15, 10:00 to 11:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 16

Abstract

A number of Samizdat publications were not designed to be published abroad immediately. They were oriented to an audience within the USSR and/or the materials were not easily re-publishable. This is perhaps most obvious in the case of art folios and journals. Digital technologies have made it easier to publish these works in recent years and such belated “Tamizdat” publications significantly enhance our understanding of Samizdat, dissidence and unofficial culture in the Soviet Union. In this paper I will consider Neofuturist and Conceptualist Samizdat editions published abroad only recently. These publications are interesting because they reflect on their audience, their mode of production and the implications of their circulation. What does it mean to think of them as “Tamizdat”? The answer might shed some light on the values and mechanisms associated with “Tamizdat.”

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