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INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA STUDIES
- Class page | What
Is Culture Jamming? | The End of the
Avant-Garde | The Product Is You
| The Medium Is The Missile | Aether Talk | Conclusions
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- CULTURE JAMMING, QU'EST-CE QUE C'EST?
- Greil Marcus, "The Assault On Notre-Dame," in Lipstick
Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
- 20C avant-garde movements: Futurism,
dada, Surrealism,
Situationist International
- critique of bourgeois capitalist society increasingly centered on the
role of media in perpetuating this
- Debord, La Société du Spectacle [Society of
the Spectacle] (1967)
- Creation of situations > artistic production
- Détournement
DEFINITIONS
- political practice: oppositional in relation to [what is perceived
as] a dominant culture
- action > artistic production: strategic intervention; ephemeral;
creation of a situation; reasons for avoiding artistic production
- interruption
- recuperation: resistance > spectacle
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