Critical Theory

Week 14: Contemporary Critical Theory: Cultural Resistance

• Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

Cultural Resistance; Critiques of Advertising and Corporate Culture; Activism (Culture Jamming, Hacktivism, détournement, Subvertisements)

• Abrupt
• Adbusters
• Advertising and the Voice of Authority - feminist critique of advertising
• ameriCON incorporated
• Anarchy Watch
• Are You Generic?
• Betty Bowers
• The Corporation (documentary)
• Cargill Corporate - spoof
  • Real Cargill site
• Culture Jam: The Film
• Culture Jamming
  • Cereal Boxes 1, 2, 3, 4
  • SUV 1, 2
• Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs
• Detritus.net: Recycled Culture
  • The Distorted Barbie Project
    • Symbology
• Dowethics.com
  • Story about the Dow site spoof
  • Real Dow site
• The Droplift Project - protesting restrictive copyright on music through the opposite of shoplifting, droplifting.
• Electronic Civil Disobedience
• Freewayblogger
• Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitorium
• MemeFest: International Festival of Radical Communcation
  • 2003 Winners
• Negativland
  • Dispepsi
• Nothingness.org - situationism and social anarchism website
• Plagiarist.org
• Reamweaver - site parody tool
• Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
• SlumberInc
• Sniggle.net: The Idiosyncratix Culture Jammers Encyclopedia - a huge collection of pranks, resistance, and related things.
  • Barbie Liberation
  • Veterans of Future Wars
• The Truth - anti-tobacco site
• Victoria's Secret Spoof Site
• Urbanize.org
• The Yes Men
• Z Communications

Theoretical Statements

• Détournement
• Hacking Memes (Stephen Downes)
• Methods of Détournement (Guy Debord)
• Situationist International Text Library - including Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle
• Sniggle Theory Page - lots of links to theoretical statements on resistance.

Link Collections

• Adbusters Jammers Gallery
• Culture Jamming Websites
• Google's Culture Jamming Site
• Sniggle.net Other Organizations

Globalization/Antiglobalization

• Some Definitions of Globalization
• Gatt.org
  • WTO disbanding hoax - and another account
• The Global South