Contributions by: Ahmed Ansari, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, David Blamey, Justin Clemens, Alex Coles, Neil Arthur & Jonathan Lindley, David Cross, Neil Cummings, Arnaud Desjardin, Sean Dockray & Benjamin Forster, Iliana Fokianaki, Susan Hawthorne, Brad Haylock, Robert Hetherington, Ross jardine, Gareth Long, Markus Miessen & Jens-Maier Rothe, Billie Muraben, Rathna Ramanathan, Patricia Reed, Adrian Shaughnessy & Freek Lomme, Martine Syms & Pip Wallis, Jake Tilson, Eva Weinmayr

This new volume in the critically acclaimed Occasional Table series focuses attention on the act of distributionas a subject of serious creative consideration and one of great social and economic importance. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds paint a big picture that embraces the actions of the individual alongside the workings of global markets. From the attention-seeking impulse of the poseur to the democratisation of art and knowledge through books, pop music, digital networks and self-organised libraries, and to the question of what can be known and by whom, the urge to disseminate is explored here as an elemental phenomenon of our time.