Böcker av Josh Macphee

From the fight against the AIDS crisis to the struggle for Black liberation and international solidarity, Graphic Liberation! digs deep into the history, present, and future of revolutionary political image making. What is the role of image and aesthetic in revolution? Through a series of interviews with some of the most accomplished designers, Josh MacPhee charts the importance of revolutionary aesthetics from the struggle for abolition by Black Panthers, the agitation during the AIDS crisis from ACT-UP, the fight against apartheid in South Africa and Palestine, as well as everyday organizing against nuclear power, for housing, and international solidarity in Germany, Japan, China, and beyond. In ten interviews, political designer and street artist Josh MacPhee talks to decorated graphic designers such as Avram Finkelstein, Emory Douglas, and more, focussing on each of their contributions to the field of political graphics, their relationships to social movements and political organizing, the history of political image making, and issues arising from reproduction and copyright.

Signal:08 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 include:Writing for the Revolution: Publishing and Designing Black Power Books by Andrew FearnleyHope in the Midst of Apathy: Liberation magazine and the Covers of Vera Williams by Alec DunnMost of My Heroes: Stamps in Memory of Anti-Sikh Violence by Vijay S. Jodha & S. RaviOur Code of Morals Is Our Revolution: Agit Prop Travel Documents of the Popular Front for the Liberation of PalestineSlave Rebellion Reenactment: An Interview with Dread Scott by Josh MacPhee

A love letter to over 750 record labels which produced political music as a medium for improving our communities and world.