…repositions or recontextualizes commercial or media images or products in order to denaturalize their meanings. This is commonly some form of a mindbomb.
I found this website in the notes of Viral Activism. It has a whole lot of ideas on how people can start being active protesters.
http://sniggle.net/Chalkboard/index.php
I thought this was interesting because some people won’t [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Activism’
May 25, 2008
Semiological Guerilla Warfare
May 2, 2008
“I want to bear your children.”
That’s the last line in the SUV “Thank You Card” project proposed on the ®™ Ark website. Anyone can suggest activist projects and submit to them to the site, which is, I just learned, an actual corporation; in this one, people leave Thank You notes on the windshields of SUVS — an ironic, guilt-inducing [...]
April 27, 2008
Identification & Identity Correction
You already know how much I appreciate the Burke quote about identification (quoted below in the post on anthropocentrism). Well, I’m flushing it out a bit here, noting seven ways in which identification functions. My challenge to you is to turn this methodology on The Yes Men, exposing the ways in which they [...]
April 24, 2008
Credit-Card Activism . . .
We briefly touched on activism through consumerism in class the other week. Quite frequently we’re asked to use our dollars as mechanisms for change: treating green strips of paper as voting ballots. We also discussed how celebrities influence consumerist trends and “cool” in general. I think this debate is central for our [...]
