Culture Jamming : : Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance / / ed. by Moritz Fink, Marilyn DeLaure.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Baranchuk, Anna,; Boyd, Andrew,; Bratich, Jack,; Burrough, Xtine,; Cirio, Paolo,; Cremonesi, Matteo,; Cuttica, Filippo,; DeLaure, Marilyn,; Decker, Christof,; Dery, Mark,; Deseriis, Marco,; Feiten, Benedikt,; Fink, Moritz,; Harold, Christine,; Jenkins, Henry,; LeVan, Michael,; LeVine, Mark,; McDonnell, Evelyn,; McLeod, Kembrew,; Osman, Wazhmah,; Perucci, Tony,; Prati, Davide,; Ruffino, Paolo,; Serazio, Michael,; Walker, Rebecca,
• HerausgeberIn: DeLaure, Marilyn,; Fink, Moritz,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 9 Illustrations, color, 51 black and white illustrations

A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s, “culture jamming” refers to an array of tactics deployed by activists to critique, subvert, and otherwise “jam” the workings of consumer culture. Ranging from media hoaxes and advertising parodies to flash mobs and street art, these actions seek to interrupt the flow of dominant, capitalistic messages that permeate our daily lives. Employed by Occupy Wall Street protesters and the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot alike, culture jamming scrambles the signal, injects the unexpected, and spurs audiences to think critically and challenge the status quo. The essays, interviews, and creative work assembled in this unique volume explore the shifting contours of culture jamming by plumbing its history, mapping its transformations, testing its force, and assessing its efficacy. Revealing how culture jamming is at once playful and politically transgressive, this accessible collection explores the degree to which culture jamming has fulfilled its revolutionary aims. Featuring original essays from prominent media scholars discussing Banksy and Shepard Fairey, foundational texts such as Mark Dery’s culture jamming manifesto, and artwork by and interviews with noteworthy culture jammers including the Guerrilla Girls, The Yes Men, and Reverend Billy, Culture Jamming makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of creative resistance and participatory culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Definitions and Debates -- 1. Culture Jamming -- 2. Pranking Rhetoric -- 3. The Faker as Producer -- 4. Putting the “Jamming” into Culture Jamming -- 5. From Culture Jamming to Cultural Acupuncture -- Part II. Critical Case Studies -- 6. Radical Scavenging Revisited -- 7. Never Mind the Bollocks -- 8. Facing -- 9. Answering Back! -- 10. Co-Opting the Culture Jammers -- 11. Culture Jamming in Prime Time -- 12. The Poetics of Ruptural Performance -- 13. Turning Tricks -- 14. Memes, Movements, and Meteorology -- 15. Jamming the Simulacrum -- 16. Balaclavas and Putin -- Part III. Culture Jammers’ Studio -- 17. The Day I Killed Freedom of Expression -- 18. Notes on the Economic Unconscious from a Billionaire for Bush -- 19. Artwork and Commentary -- 20. Delocator.net -- 21. The Yes Men -- 22. Networked Reality Flow Hacks -- 23. IOCOSE -- 24. “Say Yes” -- About the Contributors -- Index