Stephen Duncombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3935546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Duncombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncombe |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCOMBE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Copenhagen Experiment
In recent decades the importance of emotion for social mobilization has been recognized. Likewise, there has been a recent upsurge of descriptive and theoretical work done on creative forms of activism that mobilize affect. What is missing is an evidence-based, empirical study of the variable impact of creative vs. conventional forms of activism on a public audience. To address this knowledge gap, the authors designed and staged a public experime…
Cultural Resistance
Cultural resistance is the practice of using meanings and symbols – that is, culture – to contest and combat a dominant power, often constructing a different vision of the world in the process. The practice is as old as history. The Hebrew scriptures, for example, were a cultural means with which to create Jewish identity and then hold on to that identity in the face of Roman oppression. The stories of Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad served simila…
Radical theatrics
Hologram protesters outside Spanish government buildings; Sea Turtles marching against the World Trade Organization in Seattle; media pranksters, the Yes Men, posing as corporate spokespeople to re
Does it Work
Starting with the questions: Does it Work? and How Can We Know? this article explores the effect and affect, or affect, of activist art. Rejecting a singular definition of how activist art is supposed to work and drawing from the actual practices of activist artists, a range of possible aims is offered and then organized around four primary goals. A methodology, which accounts for the indeterminacy of art and the reality of unintended consequence…
It stands on its head
This essay looks at the ways in which consumer activists have grappled with the particular and peculiar nature of the commodity, first outlined by Karl Marx in Capital. Given the phantasmagoric nature of the commodity, it makes sense that consumer activists have often made fantasy the focus of their attack, employing a strategy which might be called de-fetishizing the commodity. This sort of consumer activist strategy has traditionally been emplo…
They Believe; Can I
Research Article| July 01 2008 They Believe; Can I? Stephen Duncombe Stephen Duncombe STEPHEN DUNCOMBE is the author of, most recently, Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (2007). He teaches the history and politics of media and culture at the Gallatin School of New York University and is a life-long political activist. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2008) 36 (1): 7–…
A Pickpocket's Tale
George Washington Appo was a pickpocket, con artist, actor, opium addict, snitch, and frequent prisoner. Appo made no important discoveries nor did he found any great enterprises; he cannot even be considered one of Eric Hobsbawm's “primitive rebels,” prefiguring a strain of political resistance through his banditry. George Appo lived and died a minor criminal. So the first question that comes to mind when reading A Pickpocket's Tale is, Why shou…
What's the Matter with Kansas
The Penalty of Leadership
Notes from underground
I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill
Quality of Whose Life
I've Seen the Future, andIt's a Sony
We're Marketed, Therefore We Are
Does it Work
Starting with the questions: Does it Work? and How Can We Know? this article explores the effect and affect, or affect, of activist art. Rejecting a singular definition of how activist art is supposed to work and drawing from the actual practices of activist artists, a range of possible aims is offered and then organized around four primary goals. A methodology, which accounts for the indeterminacy of art and the reality of unintended consequence…
The Copenhagen Experiment
In recent decades the importance of emotion for social mobilization has been recognized. Likewise, there has been a recent upsurge of descriptive and theoretical work done on creative forms of activism that mobilize affect. What is missing is an evidence-based, empirical study of the variable impact of creative vs. conventional forms of activism on a public audience. To address this knowledge gap, the authors designed and staged a public experime…
It stands on its head
This essay looks at the ways in which consumer activists have grappled with the particular and peculiar nature of the commodity, first outlined by Karl Marx in Capital. Given the phantasmagoric nature of the commodity, it makes sense that consumer activists have often made fantasy the focus of their attack, employing a strategy which might be called de-fetishizing the commodity. This sort of consumer activist strategy has traditionally been emplo…
Cultural Resistance
Cultural resistance is the practice of using meanings and symbols – that is, culture – to contest and combat a dominant power, often constructing a different vision of the world in the process. The practice is as old as history. The Hebrew scriptures, for example, were a cultural means with which to create Jewish identity and then hold on to that identity in the face of Roman oppression. The stories of Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad served simila…
We're Marketed, Therefore We Are
I've Seen the Future, andIt's a Sony
Quality of Whose Life
Notes from underground
I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill
The Penalty of Leadership
What's the Matter with Kansas
A Pickpocket's Tale
George Washington Appo was a pickpocket, con artist, actor, opium addict, snitch, and frequent prisoner. Appo made no important discoveries nor did he found any great enterprises; he cannot even be considered one of Eric Hobsbawm's “primitive rebels,” prefiguring a strain of political resistance through his banditry. George Appo lived and died a minor criminal. So the first question that comes to mind when reading A Pickpocket's Tale is, Why shou…
They Believe; Can I
Research Article| July 01 2008 They Believe; Can I? Stephen Duncombe Stephen Duncombe STEPHEN DUNCOMBE is the author of, most recently, Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (2007). He teaches the history and politics of media and culture at the Gallatin School of New York University and is a life-long political activist. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2008) 36 (1): 7–…
It stands on its head
This essay looks at the ways in which consumer activists have grappled with the particular and peculiar nature of the commodity, first outlined by Karl Marx in Capital. Given the phantasmagoric nature of the commodity, it makes sense that consumer activists have often made fantasy the focus of their attack, employing a strategy which might be called de-fetishizing the commodity. This sort of consumer activist strategy has traditionally been emplo…
Radical theatrics
Hologram protesters outside Spanish government buildings; Sea Turtles marching against the World Trade Organization in Seattle; media pranksters, the Yes Men, posing as corporate spokespeople to re
Does it Work
Starting with the questions: Does it Work? and How Can We Know? this article explores the effect and affect, or affect, of activist art. Rejecting a singular definition of how activist art is supposed to work and drawing from the actual practices of activist artists, a range of possible aims is offered and then organized around four primary goals. A methodology, which accounts for the indeterminacy of art and the reality of unintended consequence…
Cultural Resistance
Cultural resistance is the practice of using meanings and symbols – that is, culture – to contest and combat a dominant power, often constructing a different vision of the world in the process. The practice is as old as history. The Hebrew scriptures, for example, were a cultural means with which to create Jewish identity and then hold on to that identity in the face of Roman oppression. The stories of Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad served simila…
The Copenhagen Experiment
In recent decades the importance of emotion for social mobilization has been recognized. Likewise, there has been a recent upsurge of descriptive and theoretical work done on creative forms of activism that mobilize affect. What is missing is an evidence-based, empirical study of the variable impact of creative vs. conventional forms of activism on a public audience. To address this knowledge gap, the authors designed and staged a public experime…
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