Bad subjects : political education for everyday life / [edited by] the Bad Subjects Production Team.

Preface: When Good Things Happen to Bad Subjects / Michael Berube and Janet Lyon -- Introduction / The Bad Subjects Production Team -- 1. Deferral, Denial, Disavowal, Discontinuity: Leftism and the Love of Academia / Jonathan Sterne -- 2. Maximum False Consciousness: The Political Economy of American Punk / Joel Schalit -- 3. Belief and the Left / Charlie Bertsch -- 4. The Covenant, The Sword, and The Arm of the Lord / Joel Schalit -- 5. Myth of the Million Man March / Annalee Newitz -- 6. Who Owns Art? / Kim Nicolini -- 7. Tonya Harding Goes to Berkeley / Eileen O Malley Callahan -- 8. Smells Like Jobs / Steven Rubio -- 9. The Streets of San Francisco: A Personal Geography / Kim Nicolini -- 10. Scratch Me and I Bleed Champaign: Geography, Poverty, and Politics in the Heart of East-Central Illinois / Jonathan Sterne -- 11. Bisexuality and How to Use It: Toward a Coalitional Identity Politics / Annalee Newitz and Jillian Sandell --

12. Staging the Slut: Hyper-Sexuality in Performance / Kim Nicolini -- 13. Bad Tourist Gets Well: Fancy Fish Food or Miracle Cure? / Ron Alcalay -- 14. "Risk of Change": Anarchy and Growing Older with the Oregon Country Fair / Cynthia Hoffman -- 15. On Consideration of the End of the World: Life without Jerry Garcia / Cynthia Hoffman -- 16. Towards Community Art Machines / Mike Mosher -- 17. Morphing Out of Identity Politics: Black or White and Terminator 2 / Ron Alcalay -- 18. "Viral Chic": The Propaganda of Health Care in the United States / Jillian Sandell -- 19. Home Page / Steven Rubio -- 20. Resisting Cyber-English / Joe Lockard -- 21. Hackers, Order, and Control / Geoffrey Sauer -- 22. Oh Bondage, Up Yours! Thoughts on the Rhino Punk Anthology, DiY / Steven Rubio -- 23. Making Distinctions: The Politics of the Microbrewery Revolution / Charlie Bertsch -- 24. Frat-boy Fetishism: When the Goods Get Together / Freya Johnson --

25. Burrowed Frontiers / Richard Singer -- 26. Geek Chic / Ana Marie Cox -- 27. Taking Drugs, or Shopping at the Black Market / Annalee Newitz -- 28. Love and Denial: The Bridges of Madison County and Other Romances with Ideology / Ed Korthof -- 29. Burning Man and the Rituals of Capitalism / Matt Wray -- 30. Delicious Doughnuts in Berlin: The Dilemma of Political Community in the Age of Global Capitalism / John Brady -- 31. Public and Private Immigrants and the Search for a Common Political Language / John Brady.

Using the cheap desktop publishing techniques of 'zine culture, and supplementing them with an extensive presence on the World Wide Web, the Bad Subjects Production Team has produced one of the most successful political 'zines in the U.S., as well as one of the first - and longest-running - on-line publications in the world.

Bad Subjects offers a critique of the post-1960s left in the United States and attempts to reclaim a utopian vision for a political movement that has become fragmented and cynical about the possibility of social transformation. Indeed, Bad Subjects itself is simultaneously a valuable resource and an inspiration, a record of what politically engaged cultural criticism can achieve, and an example of a progressive political community making use of new technologies.