Introduction / Begüm Özden Fırat and Aylin Kuryel -- The notion of irony in cultural activism / Gavin Grindon -- The resonance of Romanticism: activist art & the Bourgeois horizon / A.K. Thompson -- Lots of money because I am many: The Luther Blissett Project and the multiple-use name strategy / Marco Deseriis -- The separation wall in Palestine: artists love to hate it -- Ronen Eidelman -- Breaking out of the specialist "Ghetto": performative encounters as participatory praxis in radical politics / Anja Kanngieser -- A proposal for grounded cultural activism: communication strategies, adbusters, and social change / Emrah Irzik -- Bakunin's poor cousins: engaging art for tactical interventions / Christian Scholl -- Clowndestine maneuvers: a study of clownfrontational tactics / L. M. Bogad -- Play with authority! radical performance and performative irony / Michael Shane Boyle -- Appendix: inventory of practices -- The contributors index.