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- Autonomous Media
Activating Resistance & Dissent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
- Drop till you shop
I insert my vision of retail subversion one haiku at a time
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The author experiments with the culture jamming practice of shopdropping, leaving poems, polaroids, stickers, and other manner of messages for shoppers. This is designed to lead to a moment of incongruity for shoppers to reflect on consumerism.
- The Fine Art of Billboard Improvement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1993
Change people's perception of an ad, and they'll never see that product in the same light again.
- On Wielding the Subversive Scalpel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
In subversion, we leave behind the interminable argument between the good bureaucrats & the bad ones. By subversion we do not mean, as in its common usage, "overthrowing the government" & replacing it with ourselves. We mean undermining the very addiction, the sick, junkie-like need, to govern or be governed at all. In the end / in the beginning, there are no leaders, no followers: there are only actors.
- Rebel Sell
Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Released in the U.S. under the title Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, the book is a critique of the underlying theory of counterculture Heath and Potter note that the capitalist system thrives not on conformity -- as so many 'culture jammers' believe -- but rather on individualism and a quest for distinction.
- The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1967
Our task is to link up the theoretical critique of modern society with the critique of it in acts. By detourning the very propositions of the spectacle, we can directly reveal the implications of present and future revolts.
- A User's Guide to Détournement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1956
Détournement means deflection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
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