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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Occasional enlightening unconventional history but mostly a diatribe against the consumer culture that has evolved. Broken and too personal. Not well written. ( )This eloquent call to arms against the "branding" of America and toward a cultural revolution encourages a return to individuality, creativity, and free thinking to its citizens. Illustrations. Feeling hypnotized by advertising? Tired of the corporate agenda? It's time to become a culture jammer, and this is the instruction book. Written by Kalle Lasn, the editor of Adbusters magazine, Culture Jam takes an activist (almost militant) approach to attacking our brand name culture. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0688178057, Paperback)America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations are run; and the way the food, fashion, automobile, sports, music, and culture industries set agendas. With a courageous and compelling voice, Lasn deconstructs the advertising culture and our fixation on icons and brand names. And he shows how to organize resistance against the power trust that manages the brands by "uncooling" consumer items, by "dermarketing" fashions and celebrities, and by breaking the "media trance" of our TV-addicted age. A powerful manifesto by a leading media activist, Culture Jam lays the foundations for the most significant social movement of the early twenty-first century -- a movement that can change the world and the way we think and live. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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