From Borat to Punk'd to The Yes Men, pranks have really taken off since the early days of adbusted billboards and "subvertisements." But with a surplus of flash mobs, fake newscasts and gag YouTube videos, it's worth asking: have political pranks jumped the, uh, snark? Dave Gilson ponders the question at Mother Jones, noting that while The Yes Men's 2004 spoof, in which ...

These signs (stickers? graffiti?) use simple computer commands to address elements of the urban environment. Love that these can have both a positive or critical message. If only you could command-z IRL... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Culture jamming | Digg this!

... by bony, blood drenched stumps. His artworks are defined by the media as culture jamming or sub-vertising, which Wikipedia describes as, ‘the practice of making spoofs or parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to ... works of Ron English and The Splasher. It's an exciting innovation in culture jamming. However, as Words & Pictures noted, the Decapitator ...

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... "Sens Army" and "A Force United" (which some culture-jamming bloggers altered to "A Farce United" last season) without getting some media outcry. Ottawa is like a ... mayor after Legal Suit Larry O'Brien say they should. The culture is that top-down. The Senators are not as much of a thing to do among people who only get into sports when it' ...

... to-them-alone, etc. And my worry is that critiquing the consumption of mainstream porn in our culture implicitly calls up or may subtly reinforce those bad messages too, *unless* care is ... etc. To my mind, this suggests a need to fine-tune one's culture-jamming to a degree that, yes, would be absurd and would sound concern-trollish vis-a-vis fast-food. In short, I strongly suspect that broadly- ...

... a group on a mission to bring more international writers into English translation to enrich culture for everyone... an interesting and admirable charitable choice. His post also duly reminds us of the culture-jamming efforts of Adbusters, who continue to campaign to make the psot-turkey Friday Buy Nothing Day. Heck of an idea! Consumption is ...

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The Yes Men is a group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call “identity correction” by pretending to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations. From their offices in Milwaukee, they create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites ...

... exceptions, including Daft Punk, the UFC fighter Shamrock, or a chicken, but overall there is a certain misogynistic feel to the work. (Although there is no physical proof that it is even a male perpetrator.) I’m certainly all for the culture-jamming movement, and guerrilla subvertising can sometimes show the absurdity of a media saturated world. But ...