Lisa Siraganian is the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of the award-winning Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons (Oxford University Press, 2020), Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life (Oxford University Press, 2012), dozens of essays and book chapters, and she recently edited the Modernism volume (1914-1945) of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Tenth Edition (2022).
Lisa Siraganian
Contributions
From Readymade to Boilerplate: Robert Sikoryak’s Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel
Glance at Robert Sikoryak’s Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel (2017) and you might dismiss it as a lark—albeit a clever one—far removed from modernist concerns. Sikoryak’s book, self-described on the front cover as both “complete and unabridged” as well as an “unauthorized adaptation,” reprints the entire 20,000+ words of the Apple iTunes Terms and Conditions legal agreement as was current in 2017. Each page of this so-called “graphic novel” (more on that label below) takes Apple’s corporate legales