Signal: 08: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture

by Josh MacPhee (Editor), Alec Dunn (Editor)

collects and connects the culture and politics of international Black Power publishing, the 1960s anarchist and antimilitarist illustrations of Vera Williams and Liberation magazine, memorializing those murdered by anti-Sikh violence in India, the agitprop of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the aesthetics and politics of a reenactment of the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history.

Crossing continents and communities, print and performance, Signal weaves a story of how culture is central to social transformation, both yesterday and today. Highlights of the eighth volume of Signal

176 pages, Paperback

Published July 18, 2023

About the author

Josh MacPhee, artist and activist, is the founder of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative, an organization that promotes radical art forms. He is the author of Stencil Pirates: A Global Study of the Street Stencil (2004) and co-edited Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (2007) and Reproduce and Revolt (2008). MacPhee is also the curator of the printmaking exhibition Paper Politics, which has been on tour in the United States since 2004."

Reviews

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed about half the articles. Really liked the article about the slave rebellion reenactment and also the big article about Liberation magazine. I had no idea they were the first organization to put out MLK’s Letter to a Birmingham Jail.