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politics, cash & art: from sublime to ridiculous
Is it the commodification of everything? Sometimes its hard to tell the difference between the programming and the commercials, with sometimes the latter being more authentic and less predictable since it sometimes captures fragments of the cultural dialogue that the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Adbusters, coldplay back to the start, eminem chrysler, fed ex dominoes, Max Horkheimer, milton friedman, Naomi Klein, nissan leaf gas powered everything, Noam Chomsky, praise tabernacle grosse pointe, Rube Goldberg, Simon Houpt, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, Thorstein Veblen, Vance Packard, willie nelson
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just buy the concept: fiction over reality
A Mutual deceit being played out to the hilt? Are they all just business models? The Culture Jamming trademark has clearly been established in the realm of Adbusters. The necessity of a young, white, demographic to be part of a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Adbusters, Anita Sarkeesian, asher roth, Bell Hooks, cornel west, daniel edwards sculpture, dream hampton, Feminist frequency, Franz Kafka, Henry Fuseli, jay smooth, Jay-Z, kalle lasn, Lisa Wade, Rocawear, ronald b. neal, shawn carter, thomas frank the baffler
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final sale: everything must go!
Just make sure you win the last game.Under new management. Oh yeah. Remember: nice guys finish last. Wailing not whining. Its called the wailing wall; a cry of anguish of the forsaken, and not a whining of the comfortable piqued … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Adbusters, amelia earhart, Amy Goodman, Billboard Liberation Front, bob marley, Bombing Science, cornel west, debbie melnyk, Edward S. Herman, Eli Siegel, Fernand Leger, Gustav Landauer, Jack Napier, John Heartfield, John Lennon, leo durocher, louis durocher, mark coop, Martin Buber, Michael Moore, New York Dolls, Noam Chomsky, ralph kercheval, rick caine, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Steve Jobs, steve jobs death, stuart manley, trade mark direct
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brand wash redemption
The commodification of subjectivity. The critique of commodity psychology inevitably seems to be displaced and fractured, distorted, by the seductive appeal with which the commodity is portrayed: usually a fragmented fetish object from which different narratives emerge… From Joseph Heller … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Adbusters, bill zuk, Damien Hirst, joseph heath, Joseph Heller, Martin Lindstrom, Morgan Spurlock, Naomi Klein, paul watson greenpeace, robert dalton, Simon Houpt, the joneses 2009, Thorstein Veblen
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men of property
Joseph Conrad characterized John Galsworthy as a moralist, someone who tended to betray instead of revealing ” the very truth of things.” In part, the sterling example of an ineffectual empathy, a sterile compassion that was reluctant to transform an … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adbusters, Arnold Bennett, attilio pusterla, edward garnett, Emma Goldman, galsworthy the silver box, giovacchino toma, giuseppe pellizza da volpedo, H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, john galsworthy the pigeon, John Sloan, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath rebel sell, mary cassatt, Naomi Klein, ralph mctell streets of london, thomas frank the baffler, Virginia Woolf
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when the revolution comes…
Joseph Heath put it very superbly. The modern condition, modern marketing and how criticism of mass society ends up increasing the cycle of consumerism. How books like “No Logo” by Naomi Klein actually make us more brand conscious and how … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Adbusters, angie jackson, arnold mindell, ben courtice, bianca mugyenyi, Emma Goldman, Gloria Steinem, henry rollins, james woolsley, johan norberg, john bellamy foster, Jonathan Chait, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Naomi Klein, seymour martin lipset, Steve Earle, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tom Peters, yves engler
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culture jamming lineup at the cash
Is culture jamming a trademark? A commodity that is more in the domain of an Adbusters and Naomi Klein and Michael Moore and perhaps even Noam Chomsky as popular tastemakers? I doubt Naomi Klein is going to be seen in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Adbusters, Arthur Miller, bill schmalz, Consumerism, Culture Jamming, Grace Lee Boggs, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, kalle lasn, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Walter Benjamin
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BAD SANTAS: CULTURE JAMMING CORPORATE XMA$
What realistic future do you see for billboards? “Most people are now walking billboards, what with all the clothing logos on their togs. I suppose the next frontiers will be inner and outer space. Designer DNA encoded directly onto our … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Adbusters, Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Bombing Science, D.S.Black, Damien Hirst, Guy Debord, Janet Lee, Jessica Hall, Joey Skaggs, Naomi Klein, Ogden Nash, Phil Knight, Phil Knight Nike, Ron English
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