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Ambiguities of Activism is a short-book, but its roughly 100 pages are rich in scholarly observations and illustrative examples... Hoofd's book is thus essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how ostensible acts of resistance today contain the seed of their own undoing. Florian Schneider, Leiden University, Asiascape: Digital Asia A spectre is haunting activism - the spectre of complicity. What worries this book is the possibility that forms of activism are subtly complicit with the very thing they oppose. Challenging the good conscience and self-congratulatory tendency of activism, this book is a deconstruction of activism in the spirit of activism. Essential reading for activists, academics, and those who wish to change the world. Jon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University, UK Hoofd's book presents an essential critique and anti-dote to the utopian activism of the contemporary anti-capitalist leftists, such as Hardt and Negri, and shows how the ideas and practices of anti-capitalism may be complicit in the neo-liberalism of the speed elite. Mark Featherstone, Keele University, UK

A spectre is haunting activism - the spectre of complicity. What worries this book is the possibility that forms of activism are subtly complicit with the very thing they oppose. Challenging the good conscience and self-congratulatory tendency of activism, this book is a deconstruction of activism in the spirit of activism. Essential reading for activists, academics, and those who wish to change the world. Jon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University, UK Hoofd's book presents an essential critique and anti-dote to the utopian activism of the contemporary anti-capitalist leftists, such as Hardt and Negri, and shows how the ideas and practices of anti-capitalism may be complicit in the neo-liberalism of the speed elite. Mark Featherstone, Keele University, UK

A spectre is haunting activism - the spectre of complicity. What worries this book is the possibility that forms of activism are subtly complicit with the very thing they oppose. Challenging the good conscience and self-congratulatory tendency of activism, this book is a deconstruction of activism in the spirit of activism. Essential reading for activists, academics, and those who wish to change the world. Jon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University, UK Hoofd,s book presents an essential critique and anti-dote to the utopian activism of the contemporary anti-capitalist leftists, such as Hardt and Negri, and shows how the ideas and practices of anti-capitalism may be complicit in the neo-liberalism of the speed elite. Mark Featherstone, Keele University, UK

""Ambiguities of Activism is a short-book, but its roughly 100 pages are rich in scholarly observations and illustrative examples... Hoofd's book is thus essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how ostensible acts of resistance today contain the seed of their own undoing."" Florian Schneider, Leiden University, Asiascape: Digital Asia ""A spectre is haunting activism – the spectre of complicity. What worries this book is the possibility that forms of activism are subtly complicit with the very thing they oppose. Challenging the good conscience and self-congratulatory tendency of activism, this book is a deconstruction of activism in the spirit of activism. Essential reading for activists, academics, and those who wish to change the world."" Jon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University, UK ""Hoofd’s book presents an essential critique and anti-dote to the utopian activism of the contemporary anti-capitalist leftists, such as Hardt and Negri, and shows how the ideas and practices of anti-capitalism may be complicit in the neo-liberalism of the speed elite."" Mark Featherstone, Keele University, UK

A spectre is haunting activism -- the spectre of complicity. What worries this book is the possibility that forms of activism are subtly complicit with the very thing they oppose. Challenging the good conscience and self-congratulatory tendency of activism, this book is a deconstruction of activism in the spirit of activism. Essential reading for activists, academics, and those who wish to change the world. Jon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University, UK Hoofd's book presents an essential critique and anti-dote to the utopian activism of the contemporary anti-capitalist leftists, such as Hardt and Negri, and shows how the ideas and practices of anti-capitalism may be complicit in the neo-liberalism of the speed elite. Mark Featherstone, Keele University, UK

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Ingrid M. Hoofd is Assistant Professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore.

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