Dada's Subject and Structure: Performing Ideology Poorly

Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations and Conventions
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Taking Dada and Ideology Seriously
	Under the Banner of Dada
	Ideology: More than Mere Ideas
	Dada’s Critique of Ideological Process
	Forming Subjects in/under Ideology
	Less What Dada Is Than What It Does
	Organizing Dada
Chapter 2: “A Constant Problem and Preoccupation”: Dada and/as Sign
	Ideology and Simple Impassivity
	i, i,, and /i/
	Fraktur-Antiqua, Kurrent-Sütterlin
	From /i/ to i
	i = dada
	The Word dada
	dada = /i/
	Hey, Dadaist over There!
Chapter 3: “A Spectre is Haunting Dada”: Dada and/as Manifesto
	Manifesting Theatrical Authority
	Founding and Manifesting the Future
	Dada’s First Engagements with Founding Itself and Founding, Itself
	Dramatis Personae: Antipyrine, Aa, “Tristan Tzara,” Tristan Tzara, Samuel Rosenstock
	From Theatricality to Performativity, Playing to Wanting
	“The Unconquerable Power of Irony!”
	The Most “Dada Manifesto 1918”
Chapter 4: “We Need Only Take Scissors”: Dada and/as Photographic Image
	Self-Generated Indexicality
	Photographic Images, Mass Produced
	Illustrated Media, Illustrated War, Illustrated Politics
	Photographic Images, Montaged
	Dressing Down the Bourgeois Political Subject
	From Subject to Society
	Höch’s Magnum Opera: Rundschau
	Höch’s Magnum Opera: Schnitt
Chapter 5: “So That Its Useful Significance Disappeared”: Dada and/as Commodity
	Advertisement and Commodity Aesthetics
	Fordist Subjectivation
	Commodity Form and High Aesthetics
	Inscription
	Choice at the Shop Window
	Commodity Speech, Commodity Noise
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Stumbles and Possible Solutions in Dada Scholarship
	This Is a Sign Is a Manifesto Is a Photo Is a Commodity
	This Is Dadaist Praxis
Bibliography
	Printed Texts
	Internet Sources
	Visual Works Referenced
Index