Israeli Passport Stamps, Rubber Plantations, Goodyear, Scrapbooking Moms, Librarians and Postal Workers
Newland, H. Osman. The Romance of Commerce: A Popular Account of the Production of Cereals, Tea, Coffee, Rubber, &c.&c &c. London: Seeley, 1920
Stanfield, Michael Edward. Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, 1850-1933. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1998.
Janssen, Rudd. The TAM Rubber Stamp Archive. 25 September 2008 http://www.iuoma.org/rub_arch.html
Miller, Joni K. and Lowry Thompson. "History of Rubber Stamps." The Rubber Stamp Albumn. New York: Workman, 1978
--Hans Vermy
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Check out this website of the rubber stamp/ scrapbooking store in my hometown!
http://www.enchantedcottagenc.com/
this page: http://www.panmodern.com/one/history.html
has an interesting fragment about Kurt Schwitters' use of rubber stamps in his art.
Other thoughts: ties to bureacracy, standardization, and archiving.
how about this
30-Minute Rubber Stamp Workshop
by Sandra McCall - Crafts & Hobbies - 2003 - 106 pages
This book is perfect for beginning crafters or sophisticated stampers who want to make
the most of their time.
users of rubber stamps, making your own rubber stamps, how do you fit in the relations of production at that point, when you are a user or an independent producer?
Jonathan
Hans -
If you're following the border theory track, or the juridical force behind the stamp, you could look at the website (and, in turn, cites) from this chap:
www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/prof/cv/msalter.pdf
He's done a fair amount on airports and the governmentalities thereof. There's also been a fair explosion on airports as heterotopic spaces: I remember a paper I heard back in Aotearoa-New Zealand, there's a cluster of them publishing on the area in Media Studies.
On a slightly more fun avenue, you could look at rubber stamps in rock gigs, especially the linkage between the DIY punk aesthetic and the stamp on the merchandise and on the punter's hand as they entered the gig. For a recent story on this front, http://electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=374&sid=e8702249f9998d8f92f6814f86a61e7e
(It's about the loss of the prized Shellac stamp).
Finally, you could look at Michal's edited book:
Kobialka, Michal (ed). 'Of Borders and Thresholds:Theatre History, Practice and Theory'. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Obviously it's more specific in outlook, but I found some of his ideas about border theory to be useful. It's possible that they might help with the idea of the stamp in the context of enabling border crossing.
--Ryan
I had a look around, and I think you might find this helpful. It crystallizes theory about different spatial practices in a way that you might find useful:
Kobialka, Michal. 'Theatre and Space: A Historiographic Preamble.' Modern Drama 46.4 (Winter 2003/4): 558-579.
--Ryan
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