Lecture on Reading: Materials, Form, Organization, Actions

Theodor Adorno

• Other Authors Louis Althusser (Contributor), Angela Davis (Contributor), Armin Hoffman (Contributor), Vladimir Lenin (Contributor), Jan Tschichold (Contributor), Louis Zukofsky (Contributor), Jack Henrie Fisher (Editor)
• Title

  Lecture on Reading: Materials, Form, Organization, Actions

• Date 2019
• Publisher Chicago, IL; Berlin, Germany: Other Forms
• Description 28 p; 9.25 in; b/w ill.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room
• Summary

  Avid Readers is an event to convene a group of different readers according to something other than chance, something like desire (the latin root of “avid”). Avid Readers is an experiment in reprinting. Avid Readers is a script for the performance of a collective reading. It is an elliptical construction of a theme in print. Avid Readers reproduces not only words but also the typographic form of words in print. A poetics of reproduction demands that nothing is enlarged or reduced but precisely reprinted at an original scale. These texts are read together not as a ritual but rather as the lucid collective enunciation of the texts assembled. This fourth issue of Avid Readers is published by Other Forms (Jack Henrie Fisher and Alan Smart), a mobile research and design collective based in Berlin and Chicago, working in multiple intersections of architecture, graphic design, and publishing. Other Forms considers how design reflects and critiques, in semi-autonomous marginal spaces, the material and social conditions of its practice. In every project, Other Forms seeks to open or reveal surplus spaces for the production of speech and writing.
  Series Note: Avid Readers no. 4
  Edition Note: Ed. of 100

• Tags MoMA Reading Room, Design, Critical theory, Zines, Essay collection