This new volume in the critically acclaimed Occasional Table series of books published by Open Editions focuses attention on the act of distribution as a subject for 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 in the form of books, pop music, digital networks, self-organised libraries, and the question of what can be known, and by whom, the urge to disseminate is explored here as an elemental phenomenon of our time.