The Charge in the Global Membrane
These images are included in the book of the same name published in 2019 by Dale Winslow at NeoPoiesis Press. The images by Marshall Soules accompany the text written by B. W. Powe, a professor of humanities at York University in Toronto and author of many books on media and culture, a poet and philosopher of wide acclaim. Visit B.W. Powe’s blog.
Marshall is the author of Media, Persuasion and Propaganda (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), founder and former Chair of the Media Studies program at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, British Columbia. He has been photographing street art since the early 1980s as a case study in media ecology.
While often considered a blight on urban landscapes around the globe and the work of vandals, street art provides a medium of expression for those without easy access to mainstream, corporate media. Street art competes with advertising for public attention, often expressing alternative or dissenting viewpoints as well as propaganda. See J. S. Porter's interview with Marshall on street art as medium.
