Creative Life: Art, Politics, People, Machines
Köln: MusikTexte, 2006.
Collected essays, forthcoming in late 2006/early 2007 in a special bilingual German-English edition.
People's Movements, People's Press : The Journalism of Social Justice Movements
Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
A history of radical journalism in America. Chapters on the journalism of the abolitionist, woman suffrage, gay and lesbian, and environmental movements, as well as the underground GI press during the Vietnam war.
The Yes Men: The True Story of the End of the World Trade Organization
New York: Disinformation Press, 2004.
(Published anonymously as the Yes Men, co-authored with Mike Bonano and Andy Bichlbaum.)
The birth of "identity correction:" activists travel the world posing as spokespeople for the World Trade Organization.
"Social Movements and the Printed and Electronic Word"
in Alternatives on Media Content, Journalism, and Regulation:
The Grassroots Discussion Panels at the 2007 ICA Conference [PDF]
Tartu, Estonia: Tartu University Press, 2007.
Outlining the historical research that went into my book People's Movements, People's Press, I address some of the vexing issues posed by the transition of social movement journalism from the printed to the electronic word.
"All the Rage," in John Zorn, ed., Arcana: Musicians on Music
New York: Granary Books, 2000.
Technical and detailed discussion of "All the Rage," a string quartet transcribed from recordings of queer riots in San Francisco, and premiered by the Kronos Quartet at Lincoln Center. The CD of "All the Rage" can be found here [link to the CD web page]
"At a Dead End?" in Hannes Leopoldseder and Christine Schopf, eds., Ars Electronica 1996
Vienna: SpringerVerlang, 1996.
Essay about serving on the computer music jury in the 1996 Ars Electronica festival. Widely reprinted in many languages, usually with the title Why Computer Music Sucks, which it was given in a reprint which appeared in Resonance.