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    Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture

    By Stephen Duncombe

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    New Edition for 2008! Much history and theory is uncovered here in the first comprehensive study of zine publishing. From their origins in early 20th century science fiction cults, their more proximate read more.. roots in ‘60s counter-culture and their rapid proliferation in the wake of punk rock, Stephen Duncombe pays full due to the political importance of zines as a vital network of popular culture. He also analyzes how zines measure up to their utopian and escapist outlook in achieving fundamental social change. Packed with extracts and illustrations, he provides a useful overview of the contemporary underground in all its splendor and misery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMicrocosm Publishing
    Release dateNov 1, 2008
    ISBN9781621062783
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    Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
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    Stephen Duncombe

    Stephen Duncombe is Professor of Media and Culture at New York University and author and editor of nine books and numerous articles on the intersection of culture and politics. These include Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (New Press, 2007; O/R Books, 2019), the Cultural Resistance Reader (Verso, 2002), and, with Steve Lambert, The Art of Activism (O/R Books, 2021). He is the creator of the Open Utopia, an open-access, open-source, web-based edition of Thomas More’s Utopia, and co-creator of Actipedia.org, a user-generated digital database of artistic activism case studies. A life-long activist, Duncombe is the co-founder and Research Director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training organization that helps activists create more like artists and artists strategize more like activists.

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    • 4/5
      Fascinating history of zines and "alternative" culture as well as a thorough critique; the updated Conclusion, with its discussion of internet publishing and the difference between that and true DIY, is revelatory.
    • 5/5
      absolutely one of the best and most up to date books written on the subject of zines. this book expounds upon zine history, politics, communities, and more in order to get a clearer picture of who and what is involved in this (now archaic) medium. though this is an academic look at zines, the language is not impenetrable and the book is accessible to someone reading about zines for the first time or the veteran zinester. there are a lot of great scholarly journal articles about certain individual parts of zine communities, but for an overall look, this book is great at contextualizing and concisely telling the story of zines.