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Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We…

by Kalle Lasn

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Harper Paperbacks (2000), Paperback

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Occasional enlightening unconventional history but mostly a diatribe against the consumer culture that has evolved. Broken and too personal. Not well written. ( )
  JBreedlove | Nov 11, 2008 |
Although I don't agree with all his ideas about how to fix the problem, I do agree with much he has to say about overconsumption. If only paradigms weren't so hard to shift! ( )
  SirRoger | Aug 5, 2008 |
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.
  jegauthier76 | Jan 16, 2007 |
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. ( )
  mamorico | Nov 6, 2006 |
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"You watch TV. It's your sanctuary. You feel neither loneliness nor solitude here."
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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.

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