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LEVIATHAN: The end of history has arrived and it is in post-Soviet Russia
By Lauren Carroll Harris Source: Adbusters Within contemporary Russian film, it seems there is an ability to make the grandest statements from the smallest stories. From the insides of tiny flats, dying towns and treeless bays, directors like Andrey Zvyagintsev … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Corruption, culture, Economics, History, Philosophy, Social Control, society, Video
Tagged Adbusters, Andrey Zvyagintsev, capitalism, Leviathan, Neoliberalism, Russian Cinema
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Two for Tuesday
Saul Williams and DJ Spooky Jurassic 5
Posted in Art, culture, Music Video, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Adbusters, Dave Matthews Band, DJ Spooky, Jurassic 5, Not in Our Name, Saul Williams, The Pledge, Work it Out
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Rope-a-Dope
By Rodney Swearengin Source: Adbusters During the second round of the 1974 epic boxing match billed as the Rumble in the Jungle, Mohammad Ali leaned extraordinarily far back upon the ropes as George Foreman relentlessly bludgeoned Ali’s body and arms. … Continue reading
Another World is Possible
From the Spanish Civil War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, anarchism pushes for a new social order By Tommaso Segantini Source: Adbusters The Spanish Civil War that occurred between 1936-1939 is always remembered as the fight between the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Philosophy, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Adbusters, Anarchism, cognitive freedom, Consciousness, Decolonization, Liberation, Mental Slavery, Occupy Wallstreet, Revolution
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We wink to them, Good Night!
By The Raqs Media Collective Source: Adbusters For the past few decades, globally, many well-meaning but demoralized people, especially artists and intellectuals, but also activists, have been losing sleep. They suffer from a peculiarly debilitating activist insomnia consisting of relentless … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Art, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Economics, Labor, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Work
Tagged Adbusters, Corporate Control, Corporate Globalization, Corporatism, Faridabad Workers News, Globalism, Sleep Deprivation, The Raqs Media Collective
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Life in the Algorithm
By Douglas Haddow Source: Adbusters The searches we make, the news we read, the dates we go on, the advertisements we see, the products we buy and the music we listen to. The stock market. The surveillance society. The police … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Philosophy, propaganda, Recession, Science, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Adam Smith, Adbusters, Algorithms, Catallactics, Catallaxy, Douglas Haddow, Economics, Friedrich Hayek, Life in the Algorithm, Neoliberalism, Paul Samuelson, The Invisible Hand, The Wealth of Nations
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Franco Berardi on the Digital Colonization of Human Experience
By Franco Berardi Source: Adbusters The Spanish colonization of Mesoamerica was essentially a process of symbolic and cultural submission. The “superiority” of the colonizers lay on the operational effectiveness of their technical production. The colonization destroyed the cultural environment in … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, society, Technology
Tagged Adbusters, Dave Eggers, Digital Colonization, Digital Culture, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Franco Berardi, George Papandreou, Malinche
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DATAcide: The Total Annihilation of Life as We Know It
By Douglas Haddow Source: Adbusters “So tell me, why did you leave your last job?” he asks. The first thing I remember about the internet was the noise. That screeching howl of static blips signifying that you were, at last, … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Psychology, Science, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Adbusters, culture, Datacide, Douglas Haddow, Social Media, society, technology
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