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Kalle Lasn is the publisher of Adbusters magazine, and the launcher of campaigns like Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week. This would incentivize sustainable practices and discourage harmful ones.
6. However, small actions in our daily lives can have a ripple effect and contribute to larger changes.
Everyday activism. Ways to take action include:
- Conscious consumption: supporting ethical companies and boycotting harmful ones
- Creating and sharing alternative media
- Participating in local politics and community organizations
- Engaging in direct action and civil disobedience when necessary
Cultural shift. By making conscious choices in our daily lives and inspiring others to do the same, we can contribute to a broader cultural shift towards sustainability, authenticity, and social justice.
There are 32 b&w illustrations, not finished but wickedly effective’such as the sketch of a bald Joe Camel on a hospital bed under the caption, “Joe Chemo.” Organized, like Walden, by season, this is the best call to simplify and renew natural life since Thoreau and the American Renaissance. Sure, this proposed revolution is formidable, but so were the civil rights and feminist struggles.
Corporate power: The rise of the modern corporation
We, the people, created the corporate charter and the rules for buying stocks and shares, and now, we the people must change those rules.
Historical context. Corporations were originally created as tools for public benefit, with limited powers and lifespans.
This act of vandalism was his first "culture jam"—defined as an act designed to subvertmainstream society.
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Overcoming cynicism. Many people feel powerless in the face of large corporations and systemic issues.
This involves:
- Breaking up media monopolies
- Creating more public and community-owned media
- Ensuring net neutrality and open internet access
- Promoting media literacy education
Participatory culture. The goal is to create a more participatory media culture where citizens are active creators and critics, rather than passive consumers of information.
Personal empowerment: Taking action in everyday life
Rage is a signal like pain or lust. It took slick marketing and TV spots to beat the corporations at their own game, to make smoking “uncool.” While the challenge of making the polluting BMW, fatty fast food, or porno-hyped Calvin Klein garments uncool will require a cultural awakening comparable to a hooker’s breaking away from her pimp, Lasn gives us specific ways to participate in the “joy of jamming.” If you get junk mail on the fax, send back a toner-breaking black piece of paper.
Lasn is more optimistic than many cynical and ironic slackers, punks, and downsiders, because, after all, we did win a thirty-years war against the tobacco giants.
This concentration of power threatens democracy and free expression.
Right to communicate. The Media Carta movement seeks to establish a fundamental right to communicate, ensuring that all citizens have access to the means of producing and distributing information. This involves questioning societal norms, rejecting manufactured desires, and creating new forms of community and expression.
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Spontaneity can only be won back by “demarketing your life” in order “to escape the consumerist script.” Culture Jamming is what Lasn hopes will constitute America’s second revolution. Media Carta: Democratizing information and communication
We will save the most precious of all our natural resources: the peace and clarity of our own minds.
Information monopolies. A small number of large corporations control much of the media we consume, limiting the diversity of voices and perspectives in public discourse.
Culture jammers are a global network of media activists waging a protracted war against the mass media and against the consumerism that is overtaking America and the world.
1. Other corporations, from ecologically damaging polluters to media mind-polluters, can be defeated when they too are held criminally responsible.
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1999
ISBN: 0-688-15656-8
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. Lasn was raised in Germany and, like the Native American in Brave New World, was able to live beyond the soma cult of American corporate consumerism and its Big Brother of TV, which dictates our culture, fashions, even dreams.
Culture jamming: Reclaiming our mental environment
We will jam the pop-culture marketeers and bring their image factory to a sudden, shuddering halt.
Mental pollution. Our minds are constantly bombarded with advertising messages, corporate logos, and consumer culture. This can lead to a more informed and engaged democracy.
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