Table of Contents

Begüm Özden Fırat and Aylin Kuryel: Introduction
Gavin Grindon: The Notion of Irony in Cultural Activism
A.K. Thompson: The Resonance of Romanticism: Activist Art & the Bourgeois Horizon
Marco Deseriis: Lots of Money Because I am Many: The Luther Blissett Project and the Multiple-Use Name Strategy
Ronen Eidelman: The Separation Wall in Palestine: Artists Love to Hate it
Anja Kanngieser: Breaking Out of the Specialist “Ghetto”: Performative Encounters as Participatory Praxis in Radical Politics
Emrah Irzık: A Proposal for Grounded Cultural Activism: Communication Strategies, Adbusters, and Social Change
Christian Scholl: Bakunin’s Poor Cousins: Engaging Art for Tactical Interventions
L. M. Bogad: Clowndestine Maneuvers: A Study of Clownfrontational Tactics
Michael Shane Boyle: Play with Authority!: Radical Performance and Performative Irony
Appendix: Inventory of Practices
The Contributors
Index

About the Author

Aylin Kuryel is a doctoral candidate in Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Her dissertation focuses on the image politics of nationalism. She is also involved in artist/activist collectives and film-making.

Begüm Özden Fırat is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey. She works in the fields of visual culture, urban sociology, and social movements studies and she is involved in different local activist groups.