Name Iain Boal | ||
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Fred turner in conversation with iain boal
Iain Boal is an Irish social historian of technics and the commons, based as an independent scholar in Berkeley, California and London.
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- Fred turner in conversation with iain boal
- Communes Commons Collections Iain Boal Ruth Beale Tim Ivison
- Biography
- Personal life
- Publications
- References
Communes, Commons, Collections - Iain Boal, Ruth Beale & Tim Ivison
Biography
He is one of the co-founders of the Retort collective, an association of radical writers, teachers, artists, and activists, which has existed in the Bay Area for the past two decades. He co-authored Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War, along with T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts. He co-edited Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information. And he is working on a book about The Long Theft: Episodes in the History of Enclosure. He is also the editor of Archives of Dissent, to be published by PM Press. In 2012, he published The Green Machine - a world history of the bicycle.
Personal life
He is married to the archivist Gillian Boal.