Cover -- THE YEAR'S WORK IN THE ODDBALL ARCHIVE -- Title -- Copyright -- SCOPE AND CONTENTS -- BOX I. SAVING AMERICA: ARCHIVAL PROLIFERATIONS -- 1 "Pawning, Picking, Storing, Hoarding: Archiving America on Reality Television" -- 2 "Germ Wars: Dirty Hands, Drinking Lips, and Dixie Cups" -- 3 "The Archive of the Archive of the Archive: The FEMA Signs of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Vévés of Vodoun" -- BOX II. COLLECTIVE FIGURES -- 4 "Marcuse's Unreason: The Biology of Revolution" -- 5 "The Madness of Slavoj Žižek" -- 6 "Fish Kit" -- BOX III. UNTIMELY ARCHIVES -- 7 "The Eighteenth-Century Archives du monde: The Question of Agency in Extinction Stories" -- 8 "Modernist Heterochrony, Evolutionary Biology, and the Chimera of Time" -- 9 "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER: INHUMANISM AT THE LITERARY LIMIT" -- BOX IV. ARCHIVES ACTING OUT -- 10 "Personifying La Con, or Post Hoax, Ergo Proper Hoax" -- 11 "The Eleventh Commandment" -- 12 "The Archive That Knew Too Little: The International Necronautical Society and the Avant-Garde" -- AFTERWORD "'To Prophesy post hoc': The Curious Afterlives of Oddball Archives" -- INDEX.