2018/01/02 by Gillian Russell · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Psychology · Computer Science · #Law in Society and Culture #Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology #Bioethics and Human Rights Issues #Philosophy #Epistemology
paper · doi:10.1080/0969725x.2018.1435393
openalex publication_date 2018/01/02 · openalex created_date 2018/03/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
This article has as its focus a queer object – an otherwise unremarkable ticket for an eighteenth-century assembly or ball in a collection of tickets made by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, an influential figure in the development of the British Museum in the Victorian period. I argue that the ticket is a tribute to a larger collection, also in the British Museum, made by Sarah Sophia Banks, in order to make claims for the attention to printed ephemera as a queer science that was foundational in the conceptualization and practice of archives of all kinds. The queer object of Franks’s ticket, in relation to the history of printed ephemera, is used to contextualize and historicize debates about ephemera in contemporary queer theory and cultural studies more generally.