PILGRIMAGE TO NOWHERE
Almost done with this one. Several chapters have been published: Love and Death in Paris and London (The Sun Magazine, June 2010) Submit to Mother India (The Sun Magazine, April 2010) Pilgrimage to Nowhere (The Sun Magazine, March 2008) And here’s some book jacket copy I worked up (’cause I just do that kind of...
BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE: Toolbox for the Next Revolution
We're pulling together the best ideas and insights from artists & troublemakers across the world to craft a design manual and web toolbox that anyone can use to carry out effective creative actions.
TRUTH IS A VIRUS: Meme Warfare and the Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
TRUTH IS A VIRUS: Meme Warfare and the Billionaires for Bush (or Gore) Andrew Boyd [first published in: Cultural Resistance, Ed. Steven Duncombe, Verso, April 2002] “Truth is a Virus.” When I first saw this phrase, defiantly spray-painted on the walls of a suburban high-school, it thrilled me. So what if it was only a...
Why I love and hate Adbusters!
Why I love and hate Adbusters! I love Adbusters! I hate Adbusters! I love Adbusters! I hate Adbusters! Turning the pages of the glossy Vancouver quarterly, I’m like an obsessed teenager pulling petals out of a flower. I love Adbusters! I hate Adbusters! I love how they take the sly, slick, seductive genius of Madison...
THE MANUFACTURE OF DISSENT: What the Left Can Learn from Las Vegas
THE MANUFACTURE OF DISSENT: What the Left Can Learn from Las Vegas by Andrew Boyd and Stephen Duncombe Originally published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest – Volume 1, Issue 3, which later became the basis for Steve’s (excellent) book, Dream. Scholars take note: the concept of an “Ethical Spectacle” was thunked up by both...
Save Western Civilization now! Ask me how.
Not long ago, Western Civilization was at an impasse, so I wrote a book to move us forward. I didn't want to write it but I couldn't help myself. Let me explain...
ENLIGHTENED MACHISMO: Self-Help for the Post-Asshole
If you’ve ever wondered how to be sexy and anti-sexist at exactly the same time, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Of course, you might have to keep waiting. Since I’m still writing it. But here’s a couple pieces that have already been published: The Happiest Day of Somebody Else’s Life (The Sun...
DAILY AFFLICTIONS: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
A dark, twisted existential manifesto posing as a book of daily inspiration.
LIFE’S LITTLE DECONSTRUCTION BOOK: Self-Help for the Post-Hip
LIFE’S LITTLE DECONSTRUCTION BOOK: Self-Help for the Post-Hip (W.W. Norton & Co., 1998, softcover, $7.99) (Penguin, 1999) Portable Po-Mo, Disposable Derrida, Foucault-To-Go. This tiny manual provides an introduction to theoretical posturing, a commentary on post-modernism, a subversive satire, and a tribute to the love-hate relationship many of us have with fashionable ideas—all in a very...
THE ACTIVIST COOKBOOK: Creative Actions For A Fair Economy
THE ACTIVIST COOKBOOK: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy (Fair Economy Press, softcover, 1996, 8.5″x11″, $15) This hands-on manual showcases some of the best media stunts, street theater skits and creative direct actions from the labor, environmental and social justice movements. Empowers organizers, artists and educators to get their message across in powerful, creative ways....
