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Detournement, as a book category, gathers works that appropriate and reroute existing texts, images, genres, and cultural artifacts to subvert their original meanings and expose the ideologies behind them. Rooted in Situationist tactics, these books use remix, collage, pastiche, parody, and erasure to turn the raw material of mass culture—ads, news, canonical literature, corporate speech—into critical art. They foreground intertextuality and authorship-as-assembly, often employing found documents, annotations, marginalia, and hybrid forms that make the seams visible. The tone is both playful and political: defamiliarizing the familiar, critiquing consumerism and power, and opening space for counter-histories and new voices. Expect metafictional gambits, faux archives and hoaxes, mashups, and rewritings (often from marginalized perspectives) that test the edges of fair use and invite active, skeptical reading. In short, Detournement titles hijack culture to make it say what it wasn’t meant to, turning recognition into reflection.

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