Ken Kanbb

Translator of The Society of the Spectacle, available at the Bureau of Public Secrets website.

Guy Debord

Self-proclaimed leader of the Situationist International, Guy Debord was certainly responsible for the longevity and high profile of Situationist ideas, although the equation of the SI with Guy Debord would be misleading. Brilliant but autocratic, Debord helped both unify situationist praxis and destroy its expansion into areas not explicitly in line with his own ideas. His text The Society of the Spectacle remains today one of the great theoretical works on modern-day capital, cultural imperialism, and the role of mediation in social relationships.

• Debord,
• spectacle,
• situationists

James Harkin

James Harkin is a trend forecaster for the Social Issues research Centre in Oxford and a consultant to global intelligence projects at HeadlightVision

• culture jamming

David Cox

David Cox is an award winning film-maker, digital media artist, writer, and cultural critic who has lived and worked in Britain, the United States and Australia. His films include OTHERZONE, PUPPENHEAD and BIT. He obtained his Masters Degree in 2003 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia. He holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Film and Television (with Honors) in 1990 from Melbourne's Swinburne School of Film and Television. He also holds a Bachelor of Education degree from Deakin University, Australia.

• culture jamming

California Department of Corrections

The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has established an organizational structure which provides for efficient and effective management of all facets of advertising to include care, treatment, discipline, training, and employment.

Billboard Liberation Front

Headquartered in San Francisco, the BLF is a privately-held, worker-controlled shadow entity with no phone number and no permanent address. Our highly secure operating environment and extralegal status guarantee our clients the acme of service, while our internationally recognized creative team delivers unmatched "wow."

• culture jamming

Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and #1 international bestseller, 'The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism'. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is being translated in over 25 languages. In 2009 it won the inaugural Warwick Prize for Literature. The six minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice Biennale and Toronto International Film Festivals.

• culture jamming

Bas Raijmakers

Bas Raijmakers is the creative director of STBY. Since the early nineties he has worked in the internet and media industry as consultant and research manager. He holds a master degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Amsterdam (1990) and a PhD degree in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London (2007).

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 Sarai - The new media initiative, Delhi

Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, (CSDS) one of India?s leading research institutes with a commitment to critical and dissenting thought and a focus on critically expanding the horizons of the discourse on development, particularly with reference to South Asia.

Chantal Mouffe

Political scientist, based at the University of Westminster, London, England.

Oliver Marchart

Since 2006 Oliver Marchart is Professor at the Universtiy of Luzern, 2001-2002 he was Scientific Advisor and Head of the Education Project of documenta 11. He lectured at different universities (University of Vienna, University of Innsbruck, Art Academies, Essex Summer School, University of Basel). Fellowships: Research Fellow at the Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex (1995); Junior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna (1997-1998); Fellow at the Columbia University Institute at Reid Hall and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2005).

• public domain,
• political science

Tjebbe van Tijen

Tjebbe vam Tijen is a Dutch artist, theorist and curator.

• art,
• archive,
• design,
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Robert Lebowitz

Digital Freedom Network

Johnathan Ward

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Eugene Thacker

Eugene Thacker is a writer, theorist, artist, who teaches at the School of Literature, Communication & Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

• biotechnology,
• biowarfare

Konrad Becker

Konrad Becker is a pioneer in media art and electronic music. He is known for initiating seminal and controversial net-culture projects. A thinker and activist, he has curated and organized a large number of international conferences and exhibitions. His recent book, "Strategic Reality Dictionary" published by Autonomedia, addresses issues of cultural agency beyond the tactical. He now runs the World-Information Institute in Vienna, doing critical research into culture and technology.

• tactical reality

The Yes Men

The Yes Men are a group who use any means necessary to agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, and then smuggle out the stories of their undercover escapades to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of big business.

• tactical media,
• activism,
• spoof

0100101110101101.org 

Eva and Franco Mattes internationally known as 0100101110101101.org - is a couple of restless European con-artists who use non conventional communication tactics to obtain the larges visibility with the minimal effort. Past works include staging a hoax involving a completely made-up artist, ripping off the Holy See and spreading a computer virus as a work of art.

• art,
• tactical media

Susanne Lang

"after years in academia, public service and business, I connect dots between corporate citizenship, civil society, and democracy with a non profit startup."

Hagen Kopp

Hagen Kopp is a migration activist and has been one of the initiators of the Noborders network.

• campaign,
• activism,
• migration,
• no border