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About Stephen Duncombe

Stephen Duncombe is an Associate Professor at New York University where he teaches the history and politics of media and culture. He is the author of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy and Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture, the editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader, and co-author of The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York. He also writes widely on culture and politics for a number of publications, from the cerebral Nation to the more prurient Playboy. He is a lifelong political activist, co-founding the community activist group, the Lower East Side Collective, and working as a key organizer for the New York City chapter of the international direct-action group Reclaim the Streets. See also:

Dream

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