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	Behnke, Culture Jamming & Advertising Techniques
		The producers of culture jamming, if we think of actors such as those from the magazine adbusters, for example, who partly have day jobs in the advertising industry to carry on their deconstructions at night, profit from the fact that they are successful in the logic of the predominate attention economy: they hit a "nerve".
		If the culture jammers want to communicate "oppositional readings" of advertising too, they are assured of the respect of the advertising technicians, to the extent that an attention kick promising to animate the market like a new drug is admirable.
		The incipient rule-breaking in the act of culture jamming, whether it is an aesthetic or social intervention in "alien material", is not a technique that is limited to the actors of culture jamming.
	subsol.c3.hu /subsol_2/contributors3/behnketext.html (2904 words)

	behnke \| culture jamming
		It is as though the frozen ritualisms of advertising technique were suddenly brought to life through the intervention of culture jammers and become "uncanny" in the Freudian definition of the term: the alienation points to the familiar that has been left out of everyday experience, the experience of public space blocked by advertising.
		It has been demonstrated that the surprise coups of the culture jammers first attain significance as political intervention, when their social use is designed to penetrate into fields that are "obedient" to advertising technique.
		In this sense, the culture jammers' intervention is also to be seen, in addition to the communication of an alternative political message, primarily as an attack on the "sacred" facts of the consumer society.
	www.republicart.net /disc/artsabotage/behnke01_en.htm (3339 words)

	PM - Culture jammers
		Culture jammers is a loose term for pranksters, hoaxers, hackers and satirists who engage in political activism.
		But lately the culture is being spoonfed to us, topped down by advertisers, corporations, the mass media, and in some sense we have actually lost control of our own culture.
		And culture jamming is a movement to reclaim our culture, to take back the culture from those people who have hijacked it from us.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s69863.htm (663 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: What Is Culture Jamming Good For?
		Culture jamming is useful to the extent that it catalyzes outreach and solidarity.
		Culture jamming can help solidarity both by functioning as normal advertising for the viewers (helping those who already agree with the message to feel like an "in" crowd), and also by functioning as a group project for the creators (helping build community and a sense of involvement).
		The book The Cultural Creatives argues that most of the people who are part of alternative culture got there because something in their lives caused their dominant-paradigm worldview to break, and culture jamming is a constant effort to chip away at that dominant zeitgeist so that it crumbles more easily.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/003259.html (1202 words)

	Culture jamming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Culture jamming is the act of transforming existing mass media to produce negative commentary about itself, using the original medium's communication method.
		Culture jamming is a resistance movement to the hegemony of popular culture, based on the ideas of "guerrilla communication".
		Culture jamming's intent differs from that of artistic appropriation (which is done for art's sake) and vandalism (where destruction or defacement is the primary goal), although its results are not always so easily distinguishable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_jamming (732 words)

	Culture Jamming
		According to important culture jammers such as Mark Dery, it is an attempt to "jam" the transmissions of our corporate-controlled, media-consumer-industrial complex.
		The origins of culture jamming probably lie with the Situationist International in France, and its practice of detournement or inversion.
		As the Western consumerist message increasingly spreads to the masses of the Third World/Periphery, it is the task of culture jammers to go there too and jam the signal.
	project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/culture_jamming2.html (1019 words)

	Challenging the mental stranglehold of American consumer culture
		Culture Jam concludes with pointers for "an assertiveness training workshop for culture jammers," which outlines several tactics and strategies for a new revolutionary consciousness.
		Culture jammers can figure out the issues and "reframe debates," and so they can "maintain their sovereignty" as engaged consumers, citizens and individuals.
		But it will be visible in various ways as culture jammers gain ground and mount offensives, building their anti-corporate consumer movement and its radical vision of a de-marketed future with a sustainable lifestyle and humane, dignified culture.
	www.muslimedia.com /archives/book00/culjambk.htm (746 words)

	Nome, Dagny: Culture Jamming
		In fact, this also places culture jammers on a continuum of youth rebelling against the status quo, where the young rebel against the old and established before they fade into complacent middle age and in turn are challenged by the next generation of youth.
		The acts of culture jamming are thus intended to throw a spanner into the integrated system of production/promotion which, by the corporations, are deployed together in a mutually referring and self-confirming way.
		Cultural jammers seek to expose the oxymoronic nature of the brands and the working practices of the corporations they represent.
	www.anthrobase.com /Txt/N/Nome_D_01.htm (4703 words)

	Rebel Sell
		After that day, it became obvious to everyone that cultural rebellion, of the type epitomized by Adbusters magazine, is not a threat to the system-it is the system.
		Culture jammers are not the first to try to break the system through consumer revolt.
		While there is no doubt that a cultural conflict developed between the members of the counterculture and the defenders of the older American Protestant establishment, there never was any tension between the values of the counterculture and the functional requirements of the capitalist economic system.
	www.harpercollins.ca /rs/excerpt.asp (1154 words)

	Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium
		Culture jamming, by contrast, is directed against an ever more intrusive, instrumental technoculture whose operant mode is the manufacture of consent through the manipulation of symbols.
		Jammers offer irrefutable evidence that the right has no copyright on war waged with incantations and simulations.
		Jammers are heartened by the electronic frontier's promise of a new media paradigm -- interactive rather than passive, nomadic and atomized rather than resident and centralized, egalitarian rather than elitist.
	www.levity.com /markdery/culturjam.html (6446 words)

	sfweekly.com Web Extra \| The Medium is the Message \| April 14 - 20, 1999
		It's a late afternoon last summer, and a crowd of weary commuters is standing on the platform of the Montgomery Street BART station, avoiding eye contact and glancing occasionally at the overhead monitors.
		Or, as Mark Nery, author of Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs, describes it: " 'Jamming' is CB slang for the illegal practice of interrupting radio broadcasts or conversations between fellow hams with lip farts, obscenities, and other equally jejune hijinx.
		But in the Bay Area, culture jamming began with groups like the Billboard Liberation Front, ad-defacing vandals whose pranks date to 1979, and Negativland, whose recomposition of a U2 song led to a well-publicized legal battle with the band and its label, Island Records.
	www.enjoythesign.com /press/culturejam.html (1457 words)

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		Culture is thus truly 'jammed'; interrupted, and the process of doing so reveals much about the inner workings of society.
		Culture Jammers had taken the popular song by John Farnham “You're the Voice“ and posted it on the S11 website, claiming it as the 'official anthem' of S11.
		In being denied the cultural space to voice an alternative view, the populations of the big western economies are flocking to the Internet and its youth are busy making their own publications, hip-hop records, techno music and so on.
	www.sniggle.net /Manifesti/notes.php (4512 words)

	KJ Selections: Culture Jammer's Guide to Enlightenment
		There is the Baking Brigade, whose members throw pies in the faces of bigtime US politicos under the slogan "to their lies we respond with pies," billboard liberators whose deft spraypainting turns glossy ad campaigns inside out, hackers who jam corporate websites, counter-shoppers who rearrange goods on supermarket shelves.
		Oh, I could ramble on about creating a culture with a noncommercial heart and soul, about sustainable ecosystems, true cost markets, radical democracy and the new human right to communicate that I think is essential in our information age...
		Culture jamming is based on the same concept.
	www.kyotojournal.org /kjselections/lasn.htm (2392 words)

	Review of Culture Jam -- Dan Bertolet
		Those who suspect that Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters magazine, and his loose network of “culture jammers” are merely cynical adolescent pranksters will be taken aback by his book’s earnest opening lines: “The book you’re holding carries a message that your first instinct will be to distrust.
		The culture jammers’ goal—to undo the domination of hollow consumerist corporate culture—is not new.
		Culture jammers usurp the omnipotent persuasive power of mass-marketed media images by turning them inside out and lobbing them back at their source like so many live hand grenades.
	www.yesmagazine.org /article.asp?ID=479 (497 words)

	Better World Films: Culture Jam
		They're "culture jammers" and their mission is to artfully reclaim our mental environment by making a spectacle of ad-culture.
		Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture, we follow three outlandish culture jammers: media tigress Carly Stasko, Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping, and Jack Napier of the Billboard Liberation Front.
		Culture Jam captures the drama of culture jamming in action.
	www.frugalgreen.com /jam.html (112 words)

	September 16, 1999-Vol31n4: "Culture jammers" bring protest to UB
		Nevertheless, the artistic end of socio/economic protest - the culture jammers - are alive, healthy and on campus.
		The jammers have different ends to their design; different methods to their deliberate madness.
		A cross section of jammers and jammer-types will be presented in a new exhibition opening tomorrow evening in the UB Art Gallery.
	www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol31/vol31n4/n4.html (850 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Culture Jamming
		Culture Jamming, or sniggling, is the act of using existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, using the original medium's communication method.
		Culture jamming differs from artistic appropriation (which is done for art's sake), and from vandalism where destruction or defacement is the primary goal.
		Culture jamming is a form of activism and a resistance movement to the hegemony of popular culture, based on the ideas of "guerrilla communication" and the "detournement" of popular icons and ideas.
	fusionanomaly.net /culturejamming.html (3256 words)

	Shovelware
		"Culture jamming," a term I have popularized by articles in The New York Times and Adbusters, might best be defined as media hacking, information warfare, terror-art, and guerrilla semiotics, all in one.
		Billboard bandits, pirate TV and radio broadcasters, media hoaxers, and other vernacular media wrenchers who intrude on the intruders, investing ads, newscasts, and other media artifacts with subversive meanings are all culture jammers.
		Of course, in the Digital Age, the cultural logic of Jurassic Park---namely, that anything that can be sequenced, scanned, or otherwise encoded can be raised from the dead---is as true for dead texts as it is for anything else.
	www.markdery.com /culture_jamming.html (301 words)

	Culture Jammers find magic button for peace and quiet - National - www.smh.com.au
		An affiliated group in NSW said members were already dabbling with the key ring-sized remotes which are capable of switching most brands of television off and sell for about $13.
		"This is about reclaiming public spaces and reclaiming your mind from the borderless media," said Mark Harmon, a member of the NSW branch of Culture Jammers.
		Culture Jammers forum member Bill Chant said he had used his device in several Sydney pubs, often to the bemusement of bar staff and admiration of friends.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Culture-Jammers-find-magic-button-for-peace-and-quiet/2005/04/02/1112302290658.html (531 words)

	CouchSurfing - Culture jammers
		This is why culture jamming has become so widespread, and is continuing to grow.
		Try to think of all of the societal, environmental, and cultural impacts that are caused by the ads that confront us on a daily basis.
		Think about how you feel about living in a 'free' country under a 'democratic' government system where you really have very little freedom or democratic right to decide what kinds of advertising methods are used to sell products.
	couchsurfing.com /group.html?gid=2542 (434 words)

	Amazon.fr : Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must: Livres en anglais: Kalle ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers".
		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.
	www.amazon.fr /Culture-Jam-Americas-Suicidal-Binge/dp/0688178057 (488 words)

	Popular Culture, Subculture, and Cultural Studies (Yale Research Guide for Mass Media and Popular Culture)
		Explanations and examples of "culture jamming." Mark Dery, who popularized the term, defines culture jamming as "media hacking, information warfare, terror-art, and guerrilla semiotics, all in one." Well-known culture jammers include Adbusters,
		This guide concentrates on cultural theory: texts by and about cultural theorists and texts on some of the main areas of current study, for example, postmodernism, gender, identity, cyberculture, Black and postcolonial studies.
		Jane and Michael Stern's encyclopedia of pop culture: an A to Z guide of who's who and what's what, from aerobics and bubble gum to Vally of the Dolls and Moon Unit Zappa.
	www.library.yale.edu /humanities/media/popularculture.html (639 words)

	Islam Culture \| Muslim and Culture of Islam
		Culture in the Time of Tolerance: Al-Andalus as a model for our own time
		Yale Univeristy Professor Maria Menocal offers Andalusian Spain as a model of cultural diversity and appreciation that permanently enriched the lives of Muslims, Christians and Jews.
		The physical setting itself - the cartoon landscape of car-clogged highways, strip malls, tract houses, franchise fry pits, parking lots, junked cities, and ravaged countryside - is not merely a symptom of our troubled culture but in many ways a primary cause of our troubles."
	www.islamamerica.org /culture.cfm (765 words)

	unmediated: What Is Culture Jamming Good For?
		Culture jamming must be good for something other than making activists feel all clever and hip for their satires on the dominant paradigm, right?
		I'd say there are multiple things it's useful for.Culture jamming is useful to the extent that it catalyzes outreach and solidarity.
		Culture jamming can help solidarity both by functioning as normal advertising for the viewers (helping those who already agree with the message to feel like an "in" crowd), and also by functioning as a group...
	www.unmediated.org /archives/2005/08/what_is_culture.php (2080 words)

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