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Megan Shaw Prelinger is a cultural historian and archivist. She is the co-founder of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco and author of Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957–1962 and Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age.Joel Schalit is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. An Israeli-American pundit noted for his unique views on Middle Eastern politics and US culture, over the past fourteen years, Schalit has produced four books and contributed to numerous periodicals including Alternet, France 24's The Observers, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and XLR8R.

• Acknowledgments / IntroductionPART I: POLITICS OLD AND NEW1. Prison Activists Notes by Karl MacRae2. Iraq War Culture by Joe Lockard3. Beyond Copyright Consciousness by Rick Prelinger4. I Was a Teenage Reactionary by Doug Henwood5. Voodoo Politics by David Hawkes6. A Context for Genoa by Edmund Zimmerman7. Blacks and Reds in Polish Technicolor by Ewa Pagacz8. Marxism, Class Analysis, and the USSR: A Y2K Perspective by Richard D. WolffPART II: REMEMBERING HISTORY9. New Year's Eve in Berlin: Firecrackers, Fascist Light Shows, and Witnessing History in the Haupstadt by John Brady10. The Tenth Anniversary of the Siege at Waco and April 2003 by Megan Shaw Prelinger 11. The FSM Café: History, Memory, and the Political Legacy of Coffee byTomás Sandoval, Jr. and Jason Ferreira12. Are Diplomatic Ties with Tyrants More Important than Civil Rights? Life During APEC '97 by Elisabeth Hurst13. Marx vs. Weber, Uno Mas! by JC MyersPART III: IN AND OUT OF THE ACADEMY14. San Francisco: Dangerous for Whores/I’d Rather Be a Whore Than an Academic by Lisa Archer15. Left Conservatism by Matt Wray16. Caretaking the Echo Pond: The Practice of Art in the Fin-de-Siecle Academy by Mark Van Proyen17. In-Between Days: Intellectual Work and Intelligent Life at the Crossroads by Scott Schaffer18. Make It a Double: My Dual Lives as Barkeep and Grad Student by Wayde Grinstead 19. Inside the Idea Factory by Katie SimonPART IV: CROSSING BORDERS20. Girls (Forced to) Dance Naked! The Politics and Presumptions of Anti-Trafficking Laws by Gretchen Soderlund and Emma Grant21. Driving Through the Minefields of Love by Joel Schalit22. Cross-Dressing in Bulgaria: Gay Identity, Post-Communist Fear, and Magical Love by Robin Brooks23. Marxing Across the Border by Frederick Luis Aldama24 Securing Profits by Carrie Rentschler25. Dangerous Bodies: Globalisation, the Militarisation of Borders and New (Old) Forms of Slavery by Arturo Aldama26. The Race to Be Mobile by Kevin CarolloPART V: THE PERSONAL IS THE POLITICAL27. On the Merits of Racial Identity by Tómas Sandoval28. Outside In: The Failings of Alternative Communities by Kim Nicolini29. Marxism After Ho Chi Minh by Viet Than Nguyen30. Reporting Rape vs. a Woman's Right to Speak: I Won't Get Fooled Again by Cynthia Hoffman31. My Dad Kicked Ass for a Living by Zack FurnessPART VI: MEDIA AND RESPONSE32. Hotel California: Learning How to Read by Charlie Bertsch33. Bodies: Sex Pistols and Abortion Art by Mike Mosher34. Marx’s Media Corps by Jonathan Sterne35. The AT&T ‘Vietnam’ Commercial by Robert Shaw and Megan Shaw Prelinger36. Heterosexual Love by Annalee NewitzNotes on Contributors / Index

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