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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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Iain Boal is an Irish social historian of technics and the commons, based as an independent scholar in Berkeley, California and London.
He was one of the co-founders of the Retort collective, an association of radical writers, teachers, artists, and activists in the Bay Area from the 1990s to the present. He co-edited Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information (1995). He co-authored Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (2001), along with T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts. In 2012, he published The Green Machine - a world history of the bicycle (Notting Hill Editions, out of print). Since 2005 or earlier, he has also been working on a book manuscript about "The Long Theft: Episodes in the History of Enclosure." As of 2022, he was working on an edited volume Archives of Dissent, which is under contract to be published by PM Press.
The historians Robert Proctor and Londa Schiebinger have credited Boal with coining the term "Agnotology" in 1992 [1] to describe the intentional production of ignorance or doubt, often for commercial gain. Originally conceived to explain the behavior of tobacco companies, it has gained more recent currency in the context of commercially motivated climate change denial.
He is married to the archivist Gillian Boal.
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Feersum Endjinn is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1994. It won a British Science Fiction Association Award in 1994.
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Iain Sinclair FRSL is a writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, recently within the influences of psychogeography.
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Kenneth Brian Frampton is a British architect, critic and historian. He is regarded as one of the world's leading historians of modernist and contemporary architecture. He is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York, where he taught for over 50 years. He is a citizen of Britain and the United States.
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Retort is a community of about forty writers, teachers, artists, and activists, all self-styled opponents of capital and empire, which has been based for the past two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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