Jason Del Gandio is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Advocacy at Temple University (Philadelphia). He has written on such topics as autonomy, immaterial labor, corporate control, the rhetoric of Barack Obama, performance art, the Occupy movement, and the relationship between neo-liberalism and the university. In 2008 he published his first book, "Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists" (New Society Publishers).