Collective Action: A Bad Subjects Anthology

Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
Part I Politics Old and New......Page 16
1. Prison Activist\'s Notes......Page 19
2. Iraq War Culture......Page 25
3. Beyond Copyright Consciousness......Page 30
4. I Was a Teenage Reactionary......Page 36
5. Voodoo Politics: Tyranny and Enlightenment in Haiti and Britain......Page 39
6. When Neofascists Storm into Government ( a Context for Genoa)......Page 44
7. Blacks and Reds in Polish Technicolor......Page 51
8. Marxism, Class Analysis, and the USSR: a Y2K Perspective......Page 56
Part II Remembering History......Page 62
9. New Year\'s Eve in Berlin: Firecrackers, Fascist Light Shows, and Witnessing History in the Hauptstadt......Page 64
10. The Tenth Anniversary of the Siege at Waco and April 2003......Page 70
11. The FSM Café: History, Memory, and the Political Legacy of Coffee......Page 75
12. Are Diplomatic Ties with Tyrants More Important Than Civil Rights? Life During APEC ™ 97......Page 80
13. Marx v. Weber, Uno Mas!......Page 85
Part III In and Out of the Academy......Page 92
14. San Francisco: Dangerous for Whores/ I\'d Rather Be a Whore Than an Academic......Page 94
15. Left Conservatism: a Conference Report......Page 99
16. Caretaking the Echo Pond: the Practice of Art in the Fin- de- Siècle Academy......Page 105
17. In-between Days: Intellectual Work and Intelligent Life at the Crossroads......Page 110
18. Make It a Double: My Dual Lives as Barkeep and Grad Student......Page 115
19. Inside the Idea Factory......Page 120
Part IV Crossing Borders......Page 126
20. Girls ( Forced to) Dance Naked! The Politics and Presumptions of Antitrafficking Laws......Page 128
21. Driving Through the Minefields of Love......Page 133
22. Cross-dressing in Bulgaria: Gay Identity, Postcommunist Fear, and Magical Love......Page 139
23. Marxing Across the Border......Page 144
24. Securing Profits......Page 148
25. Dangerous Bodies: Globalization, the Militarization of Borders, and New ( Old) Forms of Slavery......Page 153
26. The Race to Be Mobile......Page 157
Part V The Personal Is the Political......Page 162
27. On the Merits of Racial Identity......Page 164
28. Outside In: the Failings of Alternative Communities......Page 169
29. Marxism After Ho Chi Minh......Page 174
30. Reporting Rape v. a Woman\'s Right to Speak: I Won\'t Get Fooled Again......Page 178
31. My Dad Kicked Ass for a Living......Page 185
Part VI Media and Response......Page 190
32. \'Hotel California\': Learning How to Read......Page 192
33. \'Bodies\': Sex Pistols and Abortion Art......Page 196
34. Marx\'s Media Corps......Page 202
35. Fetishizing the Communication Gap: the AT& T \'Vietnam\' Commercial......Page 205
36. Heterosexual Love......Page 210
Notes on Contributors......Page 216
Index......Page 222