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(thing) by drpritch (?) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:55:44

A very hip magazine for culture-jammers. Using guerilla media tactics, they take on advertising on its home ground. Heavy on graphic design and spoof ads, this humourous/serious publication takes on the ad industry. Their buy nothing day ads were rejected by the TV networks because they were "not in our best interests".

(thing) by freeborn (5.1 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Thu May 18 2000 at 15:24:04

A magazine and website dedicated to the concept of culture jamming. Founded by Kalle Lasn (see also: "Culture Jam: The Cooling of America™" by Kalle Lasn, 1999), the magazine targets advertising and multinational corporations in their use of big monies to manipulate and control.

The concept for Adbusters and for culture jamming itself stem from the 1960s French movement, situationalism, with member Guy Debord among others, which favored the use of "detournement," in which common advertisements or other widely recognized symbols are hijacked and used against the organization or corporations that would seem to control them.


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Buy Nothing Day culture jamming Rampant mass consumerism is so evil. Hey, can I have a sip of that Frappucino? Child suspended for wearing Pepsi shirt on Coke Day
Anarchy is NOT chaos anti-commercial commercials detournement I am not ashamed to be a consumer
Make your own clothing I'd like to buy the world a Coke The Short Happy Life of an Alpha Puppy Kalle Lasn
Culture Jam It's so cool to wear Nike True Cost Design Abbie Hoffman
bogus registration information No Logo Toothpaste lipstick Guy Debord
Radiohead multi-level marketing scam Chez Geek First Things First Manifesto 2000
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