Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism: Unlicensed Print Culture in Poland 1976–1990

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Dissident imaginaries, samizdat social media and the Hirschman question
	The Hirschman question
	Unlicensed publishing as a culture
	Dissident imaginary of samizdat makers
	Prefigurative politics
	Samizdat social media
	The argument
	Notes
Part I: Introducing samizdat social media
	Chapter 1: Imaginaries and practices of samizdat social media
		Historicizing social media
		Samizdat networks and its actors
		Participatory dimension
		A DIY culture
		Social media imaginaries
		Notes
	Chapter 2: The fate of the free word depends on ourselves : The origins of dissident social media activism
		Anti-politics or prefigurative politics?
		Samizdat activism as prefigurative politics
		A collective organizer in search of a media model
		Publishing networks as a community
		The free word on trial
		Notes
Part II: Solidarity media matters
	Chapter 3: Democracy as oversight: The trade union and its press
		Counter-democracy, oversight, publicity
		Dissident media activists and solidarity press
		Radiating democracy
		Debating the role of the trade union press
		Notes
	Chapter 4: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Trade union press between social media and surrogate mass media
		Publishing infrastructure: concentrated or distributed?
		Top-down organization of bottom-up opinion
		Mounting tensions
		The party strikes back
		Censorship and the Program Council
		Days Without Press
		Before the National Congress
		Notes
	Chapter 5: Indivisible are the principles which orient our actions: The trade union press in the proceedings of Solidarity’s First National Congress
		Trade union press in Solidarity’s Charter
		Inside the program committees
		Solidarity’s media in the Action Program
		Trade union press at the crossroads
		Toward martial law
		Notes
Part III: The underground society
	Chapter 6: Dissident social media during and after The Martial Law
		Prefigurative politics goes underground
		Democracy and conspiracy
		Free initiative
		Samizdat as an identity
		Gatekeepers and barricades
		Notes
	Chapter 7: The political economy of unlicensed publishing 1
		The business of publishing
		A second economy?
		Publishing crisis
		Movement or market?
		Fund for independent publications
		A networked economy
		Movement, enterprise, network
		Notes
Part IV: Lost in transition
	Chapter 8: Crisis and compromise
		The fatigue of the war of position
		The reconquest of publicity
		Legitimization exchange
		Inside the Civic Committee
		Notes
	Chapter 9: The exceptional moment of dissident politics
		Transitional arrangements
		New media order
		Shelter from the storm
		On the ground we seize today we shall build tomorrow
		Notes
	Chapter 10: The margin of liberty
		A final amnesty
		Pre-emptive Thermidorianism
		A foul
		Notes
	Conclusion
		Notes
Bibliography
Index