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Kalle Lasn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kalle Lasn is the founder of Adbusters magazine and author of the book Culture Jam. Lasn produced a number of documentaries and commericals including one a 30-second television ad about the disappearing old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. This indicent led Lasn to found Adbusters Media Foundation, Adbusters Magazine and Powershift Advertising Agency to fight for the right of access to the public airwaves. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalle_Lasn   (222 words)

Encyclopedia: Kalle Päätalo Kaarlo (Kalle) Alvar Päätalo ( November 11, 1919- November 20, 2000) was a Finnish novelist, the most popular Finnish writer in the 20th century. Päätalo was born in Taivalkoski, Province of Oulu, into poor circumstances. Other strengths of Päätalo's style are his absolute sincerity to the reader - he seemed to leave nothing of his life untold, yet his writing is never merely sensational - and his skillful way with spoken Finnish, especially his native dialect. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kalle-Päätalo   (222 words)

Kalle Päätalo Kalle Päätalo was born in Taivalkoski in the small village of Jokijärvi. Päätalo read widely, lending books from the school library and the public library which was situated in the centre of the county, 20 kilometers from his home. Päätalo's path from the backwoods to the position of a celebrated writer had much similarities with the story of Martin Eden, Jack London 's hero from his famous novel. kirjasto.sci.fi /paatalo.htm   (222 words)

Untitled Document Kalle: Sure, and the cult with three-thousand marketing messages a day coming at you every day of your life from the moment you are crawling around the TV set as a baby right down to the time you are an eighty year old person in an old folks home. Kalle: So, I would dearly love to see a sufficiently functioning marketplace of ideas where, you know, I was allowed on with my anti-car spots and then I could run them right next to a Nissan or a Toyota or a Ford ad if I felt like it. This evening my guest is Kalle Lasn, publisher and editor of the Canadian magazine, Ad Busters, published by the media foundation, a global network of writers, artists, educators and others who want to build the new social activist movement of the information age. www.leftgatekeepers.com /articles/MaureenPrimeranoInterviewTranscriptOfKalleLassen.htm   (4725 words)

Thunderbird Magazine Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters magazine and corporate provocateur par excellence, isn’t out to just throw interesting facts about corporate deviousness at a postmodern audience already jaded by the marketing techniques of Machiavellian corporations. Lasn is uninterested in the usual forms of protest, he doesn’t care to add his voice to those of other pundits and to shrilly whine against the corporate monolith. Lasn writes:"The unofficial history of America, which continues to be written, is not a story of rugged individualism and heroic personal sacrifice in the pursuit of a dream. www.journalism.ubc.ca /thunderbird/archives/2000.01/jam.html   (820 words)

Kalle - Kalle Päätalo Kalle Päätalo was born in Taivalkoski in the small village of Jokijärvi. Kalle Johannes Gabriel Kaivola; 28-vuotias; Päätoimittaja; Opiskelija; Naimisissa. Associate professor Kalle Gehring uses NMR spectroscopy use in the study of protein and nucleic acid structures at the McGill Department of Biochemistry. www.hispider.com /?q=kalle   (820 words)

Newcity Chicago feature This extended essay by Kalle Lasn, the supremely disgruntled Canadian publisher of Adbusters magazine, is more of a multi-festo, a many-festo: You name the aspect of our fin de siecle existence, and Lasn will tell you what's corroded about it. Lasn is the Magellan of wrath: Not content to direct his anger at one facet of our cultural geography, he ranges over the whole bleak landscape, planting flags of pissed-offedness wherever he comes to port. Lasn lashes out against the psychic effects of ubiquitous background noise (negative), the policy ramifications of neo-classical economics (very, very negative), the massive role that the massive corporations are playing in modern life (massively negative). www.newcitychicago.com /home/daily/feature/culure_121499.html   (409 words)

Blackworld Päätalo-instituutti - Valtavasti tietoa kirjailijasta (bibliografia ja artikkeleita) sekä tietoa itse instituutista ja siellä järjestettävästä toiminnasta sekä Kalle Päätalo -seurasta. www.blackworld.com /cgi-bin/apexec.pl?etype=odp&template=afdtemplate.html&passurl=/World/Suomi/Kulttuuri_ja_viihde/Kirjallisuus/Kirjailijat   (409 words)

WWW Welt : World : Suomi : Kulttuuri_ja_viihde : Kirjallisuus : Kirjailijat Valtavasti tietoa kirjailijasta (bibliografia ja artikkeleita) sekä tietoa itse instituutista ja siellä järjestettävästä toiminnasta sekä Kalle Päätalo -seurasta. www.www-welt.de /index.php/World/Suomi/Kulttuuri_ja_viihde/Kirjallisuus/Kirjailijat   (409 words)

Reason magazine -- May 2000, Rebel Without Applause by Jacob Sullum Lasn's treatment of environmental issues, which he links to a way of life that generates pollution and depletes resources through excessive production and consumption, is similarly impressionistic. Lasn is not embarrassed by this petulant act of sabotage. Lasn, a former market researcher and documentary filmmaker who was born in Estonia, grew up in Australia, and eventually settled in Canada, wants to deprogram us. www.reason.com /0005/bk.js.rebel.shtml   (1988 words)

TIME Europe Fast Forward - People To Watch As Kalle Lasn watched young people protesting at the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, he felt paternal pride and, for the first time in 20 years, optimism. The spoofs are small, Lasn says, compared with Big Tobacco's "multibillion dollar effort over the past 30 or 40 years." His crusade may be driven less by a desire for something new than a wish for a return to a simpler age. Yet Lasn remembers those early years as some of the happiest of his life, marked by simple pleasures like swimming in rivers and cooking dinner with his mother. www.time.com /time/europe/specials/ff/trip1/ptw/3.html   (437 words)

Book (Metro Times Detroit) Lasn parts company with more traditional populism, however, in his attention to advertising and media culture — not surprising, since he’s also the founder of Adbusters magazine. That is, Lasn is so outraged at overconsumption and conspicuous displays of wealth that he forgets that this actually isn’t the rule, even in America. Lasn scores his most dramatic successes by making audiences feel that the gross national product really is gross. www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=36173   (749 words)

Salon.com Technology Letters Kalle Lasn's decision to shift gears in addressing corporate gluttony may be a brave departure from the usual left-wing strategies of boycotting and "whining." However, I question how well Lasn and his team have thought out the long-term effects of his Black Spot shoe-marketing campaign. Salon's article didn't clearly explain whether Kalle Lasn and his "nonprofit" organization plan to make money on the Black Spot shoes. Lasn's campaign may indeed be a wake-up call to the corporate giants and the buying public they depend on. www.salon.com /tech/letters/2003/10/13/adbusters/print.html   (929 words)

Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America by Kalle Lasn Such was the case with Kalle Lasn, a man whose background (born in Estonia, raised in Germany, worked in Austarlia and Japan) and skill set (market research and maker of documentary films seen on PBS and CBC) make him intimately aware of the role media and advertising play in shaping our disillusioned consumer culture. Lasn also places Culture Jamming in the context of a long legacy of freedom-seekers and practitioners of civil disobedience, relating today's fight to free ourselves from corporate and media control to that of the American revolutionaries who fought off British corporations, the civil rights and womens' rights movements and evironmentalism. Lasn believes that what we talk about, eat, buy, and do every day is strongly controlled by a small minority of corporations (1/2 in Canada, Murdoch) page 186 lists the few co.s) who sell us their products and control our media. www.disenchantmentville.com /books/culturejam.shtml   (5043 words)

People's Weekly World - Consumerism run amok Though Kalle does acknowledge that the corporate-controlled media and globalization are the main obstacles in the way of a more democratic society, he does very little to initiate a plan of action, aside from spontaneous individual acts of “billboard liberation” or buying time on CNN for “Buy Nothing Day” commercials. Kalle is way of the mark when he assumes that working class people have the luxuries he mentions. Lasn Kalle, who “started a market research company Â… made a lot of money [and] traveled the world,” like many well-to-do reformers, has one key to his prose — arrogance. www.pww.org /article/articleprint/383   (504 words)

Directory - World: Suomi: Kulttuuri ja viihde: Kirjallisuus: Kirjailijat Päätalo-instituutti   ·  cached  · Valtavasti tietoa kirjailijasta (bibliografia ja artikkeleita) sekä tietoa itse instituutista ja siellä järjestettävästä toiminnasta sekä Kalle Päätalo -seurasta. www.incywincy.com /default?p=278384   (504 words)

Taivalkoski - free-definition Taivalkoski was the home of famous writer Kalle Päätalo and tv-comedian Pekka Jalava. The childhood home of author Kalle Päätalo has become one of the most visited tourist attractions in Taivalkoski. The municipality has a population of 4,869 (end of 2003) and covers an area of 2,657.50 km² of which 200.88 km² is water. www.free-definition.com /Taivalkoski.html   (504 words)

Truth In Advertising Lasn was born in Estonia, a republic of the former Soviet Union, in 1942. Lasn: More than ten years ago, when we first started the Media Foundation, we had a feeling that all the old political movements had run out of steam, and many activists had burned out. Lasn: Many ad-industry people feel disenchanted with the work they do and with the ethical neutrality that reigns in their profession. www.thesunmagazine.org /truthad.html   (1669 words)

'Culture Jamming: 21st Century Activism' by Star Jewel Smith - Get Underground Featured Article       Lasn strongly feels, "to give media democracy, one legal victory against the three big networks is necessary." In the meantime, Adbusters has used the internet to develop their internet TV channel, Lasn unwaveringly states, "There is no democracy on the airwaves." Since the inception of Adbusters, they’ve attempted to buy air time first in Canada and in the United States. Kalle Lasn was born in Tallinn, Estonia, during the middle of World War II. www.getunderground.com /underground/features/article.cfm?Article_ID=701   (2896 words)

Amazon.fr :  Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America: Livres en anglais Lasn also pushes for the return of corporations to a subordinate role in people's lives, citing the 1886 U.S. Supreme Court decision that rendered corporations "natural persons" in the eyes of the law as a horrendous miscarriage of justice that must be overturned. Dissatisfied with the results of both academic and mainstream liberalism and feminism, Lasn harks back to the situationist roots of the 1968 Paris uprisings, a brief moment when it seemed possible that men and women might be able to wholly re-create not only their own lives but society as well. For Lasn (publisher of Adbusters Magazine), "America is no longer a country but a multitrillion-dollar brand": the media and corporate greed, he argues, have hooked Americans on conspicuous consumption, turning vigilant citizens into hypnotized consumers. www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0688156568   (797 words)

UWO Gazette - Volume 96, Issue 94 Lasn is fighting against what he describes as "mental pollution," where a person's mind becomes so saturated with unnecessary information that it becomes increasingly more difficult to focus on personal feelings without the intrusion of an unwanted thought. According to Lasn, what makes this assault on the public mindspace worse is the fact that 99 per cent of these advertisements are aimed at selling products. People begin to see their normal lives as inadequate because the "perfect" person on television is somehow a superior being to be emulated. www.gazette.uwo.ca /2003/March/27/campus_and_culture2.htm   (461 words)

The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews But, because of the war, "corporations made huge profits from procurement contracts and took advantage of the disorder and corruption of the times to buy legislatures, judges and even presidents." As Kalle Lasn, author of Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America notes, Abraham Lincoln "foresaw terrible trouble" with this new situation. Lasn is a documentary filmmaker and publisher of Adbusters magazine, as well as founder of the Adbusters Media Foundation. The first half of Lasn's book sets out his thesis for where we are -- too much information, suffering caused by plenitude, wide-scale emotional depression, loss of empathy for one another, global media control. www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/1999-12-10/books_vsbr2.html   (791 words)

Challenging the mental stranglehold of American consumer culture Lasn is iconoclastic in every sense of the word, and he constantly seeks to find ways of thinking and acting outside habitual patterns of analysis and resistance. Lasn asks readers to seek out and experience these "moments of truth," and then reconsider their own lifestyles and complicities. The cure for this malady is what Lasn terms "culture jamming," an activists’ strategy that he believes will result in "the uncooling of America" and allow people to get back to living their lives. www.muslimedia.com /archives/book00/culjambk.htm   (746 words)

The No Sweat Sneaker and the Town of Decent Kalle Lasn said that sample is from China; that he got it independently. When I hear Kalle Lasn talking about a $60 or $70 shoe, it seems to me there must be a market out there with people willing to pay that much for an ethically-made shoe. That's what we were hoping to project, and Kalle seemed to like the concept. www.nosweatapparel.com /news/spring_04/interview.html   (2973 words)

Culture Jam Review Lasn argues that consumerism has infected American culture to the point that the word "America" no longer signifies the name of a nation, but a multi-trillion dollar collection of brand names. Throughout his book, Lasn also deals with similarly related issues, addressing the ways in which corporations are repressing our freedom of speech, harming the environment, and a host of other problems. Beyond merely complaining about the effects of consumer culture like most college students do (myself included), Lasn examines the issues very closely, explaining how and why corporations are affecting our culture and the world in negative ways, and how they have come to wield as much power as they do. www.toolness.com /cj   (387 words)

Going After Nike Like many entrepreneurs, Kalle Lasn has big ideas, and even bigger dreams. Lasn wants to merge the marketplace of goods into the marketplace of ideas: The question is whether the Blackspot will live up to Lasn's lofty goals -- or whether those goals will end up sounding like the empty rhetoric of yet another pitchman. Lasn's attitude toward Nike is particularly visceral, and in conversation he refers to its CEO, Phil Knight, as a "mind-f---er" at least six times. www.inc.com /magazine/20041001/adbusters.html   (3596 words)

Canadian Jewish News Kalle Lasn, the article’s author and the magazine’s editor, told The CJN he felt compelled to write the piece because “the mainstream and alternative media are somehow scared of talking about the Jewishness of the neocons and the Zionism thereÂ… and the influence this has on American foreign policy in the Middle East.” Lasn said he has “an incredible amount of respect” for Jews, who, owing to the Holocaust’s “deep imprint” on them, have developed a keen ability to spot dictators such as Saddam Hussein. Lasn said he’s received much abusive mail and even personal threats. www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=2844   (561 words)

Congregational Leaders Articles & News According to Kalle Lasn, large corporations have so seduced, jolted, hyped, brainwashed, and otherwise hoodwinked us through the media that America has become more a product, America™, than a country. Lasn's vision is a reclaimed America, free of its trademark symbolism: where the public airwaves are a forum for meaningful public discourse; where shareholders who are held personally accountable for the sins of the corporation focus on service rather than on dollars;and where sustainable growth replaces growth at all costs. Lasn is obviously a man of deep passion and zeal, a crusader devoted to saving America from its epidemic consumerism. www.gbod.org /congregational/articles.asp?act=reader&item_id=2472   (852 words)

The Global Citizen: Dont' Be a Turkey Kalle Lasn (it's pronounced like "Larsen" but with a disappearing R) is a Canadian of Estonian descent, who lives in Vancouver. And, Kalle Lasn discovered when he tried to buy 30 seconds of air time, there's another kind of unacceptable ad. No other network will touch it, and Lasn is talking legal action to claim his free speech rights. www.pcdf.org /meadows/adbusters.htm   (710 words)

Gadfly Online. Last Week. Kalle Lasn Interview. Lasn writes of his movement as one that unites people on the left as well as the right; it isn't bound by any ideology besides its own. Lasn, angry at the plenitude of Americans and our spoiled sense of materialism, created a protest against our consumerism: "Buy Nothing Day," which falls on the biggest shopping day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving. Part of this is done through mindset and part is done by acts of non-violent resistance; culture jamming, as evidenced by manipulated billboards, the hacking of corporate websites to reveal the truth about their real goings-on and protesting it all with public service announcements. www.gadflyonline.com /lastweek/kalle%20lasn.html   (1959 words)

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