Table of Contents

Introduction
Paper objects
1. The materiality of excerpts and quotations: writing on, cutting, and pasting paper
2. The modern object: multiplicity, movement, reproduction
Newspapers
3. The newspaper and the emergence of the newspaper clipping
4. Newspapers, scholarship, and clippings
Clippings
5. Einstein in paper: physicist Ernst Gehrcke’s clipping collection
6. Flour as paste: The newspaper fragment in the work of Kurt Schwitters
7. Order in paper: The newspaper clipping collection at the Hamburg World Economy Archive
8. The newspaper clipping and modernity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Anke te Heesen is Professor of History of Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin