Iain Boal [SEP] occupation
Iain Boal
Iain Boal is an Irish social historian of technics and the commons, based as an independent scholar in Berkeley, California and London.
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-edited "Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information" (1995). He co-authored "Afflicted Powers:
life.
He is married to the archivist Gillian Boal.
Publications.
- Boal, Iain and James Brook, "Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information City", (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1995)
- As member of Retort, "Blood for Oil?" (2005)
- As member of Retort, "Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War"