Stephen Duncombe is co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training institute that helps activists create more like artists and artists strategize more like activists. Duncombe is also a Professor of Media and Culture at New York University and the author and editor of six books on the intersection of culture and politics including Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy and the Cultural Resistance Reader. He is a life-long political activist, and lives in New York City, USA.

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