Pode Bal 1998-2008 (2008)

Monography of the Czech art group Pode Bal and its 10 years of existence.

Edited by Pode Bal
Design and typography: Pode Bal
Photography: Pode Bal, Jan Šilar, Martin Polák, Michal Sváček, Petr Václavek
Published in 2008 by DIVUS
ISBN: 978-80-86450-43-8, EAN: 9788086450438
254 pages

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Ruth Reitan: Global Activism (2007)

This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process.

Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the ‘neoliberal triumvirate’ of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization:
* the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners
* Via Campesina peasant farmers
* Our World Is Not For Sale
* and the anarchistic Peoples’ Global Action.

Written by a scholar-activist, the book highlights that despite their diversity, these collective actors follow a similar globalizing path and that networks in which solidarity is based on a shared identity perceived as threatened by neoliberal change are gaining strength. Social forums are depicted as a fertile ground to strengthen networks and a common ground for cooperative action among them, but also a battleground over the future of the forum process, the global anti-neoliberal struggle, and ‘other possible worlds’ in the making.

Global Activism will appeal to students and scholars interested in globalization, international relations, IPE and social movements.

Publisher Routledge, 2007
ISBN 0415455510, 9780415455510
Length 338 pages

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Deirdre Boyle: Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited (1997)

“Part of the larger alternative media tide which swept the country in the late sixties, guerilla television emerged when the arrival of lightweight, affordable consumer video equipment made it possible for ordinary people to make their own television. Fueled both by outrage at the day’s events and by the writings of people like Marshall McLuhan, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson, the movement gained a manifesto in 1971, when Michael Shamberg and the Raindance Corp. published Guerilla Television. As framed in this quixotic text, the goal of the video guerilla was nothing less than a reshaping of the structure of information in America.

In Subject to Change, Deidre Boyle tells the fascinating story of the first TV generation’s dream of remaking television and their frustrated attempts at democratizing the medium. Interweaving the narratives of three very different video collectives from the 1970s–TVTV, Broadside TV, and University Community Video–Boyle offers a thought-provoking account of an earlier electronic utopianism, one with significant implications for today’s debates over free speech, public discourse, and the information explosion.”

Keywords and phrases
Michael Shamberg, Megan Williams, guerrilla television, Freex, Paul Goldsmith, portapak, WNET, Abbie Hoffman, Allen Rucker, KTCA, TVTV Show, Greg Pratt, TVTV’s, Ira Schneider, Cajun, David Loxton, cable television, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Appalachia

Publisher Oxford University Press US, 1997
ISBN 0195110544, 9780195110548
286 pages

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Excerpt published in Art Journal, 1985.