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Art, Resistance and Rebellion on the Net
Call to join the cybernetic edition of CompArte "Against Capital and its Walls, All the Arts"
July, 2017
The Brazilian Context
Many are the social, political or economic problems in Brazil.
Socially, there's an extremely unequal distribution of wealth. Such a
big social unequality is reflected, for example, in the extreme
differences between the center and the periphery in the big cities,
regional unequalities, criminality, racism. Besides that, we live in an
unnoficial police state that acts in defense of the elites, murdering
and arresting poorer citzens, because of the color of their skin or
social condition.
The Logos Fight back
The culture jammers tried to subvert the big brand names. But the smart
advertisers now use guerrilla tactics themselves, according to James Harkin
In a recent newspaper interview, Kalle Lasn was interrogated about
Adbusters, the Canadian anti-advertising magazine that he founded.
Misopolis Campaign: Diesel Response
"This is an email we got from the Diesel office.
Notice how there is no mention of workers rights, or rebuking any of the points raised by our website."
- www.dieselforwomen.com
'Diesel' hoax press release
A Brave New World for Female Factory Workers: Misopolis
Diesel is proud to announce a new milestone in its ongoing campaign for
successful living. To make a free lifestyle possible for young women in
emerging markets, it will help them conquer a key life challenge: the
right to safe abortion. Welcome to Misopolis, a brave new world for
female factory workers.
About Diesel's New Campaign Called Misopolis
Clean Clothes Campaign release
Diesel says to take female workers' rights serious, with their release
of the campaign Misopolis (see www.dieselforwomen.com). With this
campaign Diesel wants to improve the living conditions of female garment
workers by distributing free abortion pills.
Beautiful Trouble - A toolbox for revolution
Introduction
By Andrew Boyd & Dave Oswald Mitchell
"The clowns are organizing. They are organizing. Over and out."
-Overheard on UK police radio during action
by Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, July 2004
NY Times Special Edition: Iraq War Ends!
November 12, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"SPECIAL" NEW YORK TIMES BLANKETS CITIES WITH MESSAGE OF HOPE AND CHANGE
Thousands of volunteers behind elaborate operation
Unpresidented: Washington Post, May 1, 2019: Trump Flees White House
Unauthorized Special Edition of the Washington Post: “Trump Flees White House”
“Bye-Bye 45” offers road map to creating the near future we want and need
Special "Merseyside editions" of The S*n appear in Liverpool newsagents: The Truth - We Lied
A spoof edition of The S*n tabloid newspaper has started to appear at Liverpool news agents, following the Sun's refusal to mention the Hillsborough inquest verdicts on its front page, and the infamous 'The Truth' front page on April 19, 1989, containing false accusations towards Liverpool fans. In parallel a nation wide campaign has started refusing free World Cup promotion editions of The Sun across the UK.
New Ad Campaign Explains Drones to Skeptical American Public
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 6, 2013 - San Francisco, California
The
California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new series of
advertisements to defend America's drone policy amidst mounting public
scrutiny from lawmakers and human rights groups.
On Election
Day, November 5, 2013 the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated
and discharged over a dozen bus shelter advertisements in San Francisco,
including the intersection of Market and 7th Street, one block from the
Federal Building.
Occupy Xmas - Buy Nothing!
#OCCUPYXMAS kicks off with Buy Nothing Day, on November 25 / 26.
Buy nothing day / a 24 hour moratorium on consumer spending / north america nov 25th, international nov 26th.
adbusters.org/bnd
Slashing the Borg: Resistance is Fertile
(C) Mark Dery 1996; all rights reserved; reproduction in any medium without author's written permission forbidden.
The Becoming Environmental of Power: Tactical Media After Control - Part I
There is a last enterprise that might be undertaken. It would be to seek
experience at its source, or rather, above that decisive turn where,
taking a bias in the direction of our utility, it becomes properly human
experience. (Bergson, 1991: 184).
Bank of America still not yours... yet.
April 19, 2012 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ON-THE-BRINK BANK STILL NOT YOURS (YET)
Dow Jones posts fake release for two hours; bank gets fake website blacklisted, briefly
Bank of America executives, investors, and opponents alike reacted with
surprise to yesterday's news - posted for two hours on Dow Jones Newswire
and elsewhere - that the mammoth financial institution, realizing it was
heading for a taxpayer bailout, was asking Americans to start thinking
about what they'll do with the bank once they own it, and to start
advertising that vision too.
BLF Manifesto
In the beginning was the Ad. The Ad was brought to the consumer by the Advertiser. Desire, self worth, self image, ambition, hope; all find their genesis in the Ad. Through the Ad and the intent of the Advertiser we form our ideas and learn the myths that make us into what we are as a people. That this method of self definition displaced the earlier methods is beyond debate. It is now clear that the Ad holds the most esteemed position in our cosmology.
ReadFinal Program: As If / Vox Populi / The Syrian Archive / The Society of Post-Control
Tactical Media Connections public program, Amsterdam January 20 - 22, 2017.
As part of the Tactical Media Connections public research trajectory tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and its connections to the present, a series of public events take place in Amsterdam between January 20 and 22, 2017. The public program includes an exhibition at Framer Framed in the Tolhuistuin cultural centre, opening on Friday January 20; a Meme Wars Lab workshop on Friday January 20; a public debate at Eye Filmmuseum on Saturday January 21, and a one day conference (‘The Society of Post-Control’) again at the Tolhuistuin on Sunday January 22.
Please find below a brief program overview, followed by a detailed description of the different parts of the public program.
Tactical Media and the End of the End of History
As a playful, do-it-yourself approach to media activism and new technologies, tactical media (TM) seemed to have some critical bite when it emerged in the mid-1990s. But is it still radical today?
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