#adbusters

[diana-andraste]

Miroslav Tichý, c. 1970s

"Tichý saw his only recourse in surveillance, in the forbidden look — in an undetectable glance..."

The link below is to an interesting article on Tichý's talent, while also speaking both to the covert and the surreptitious nature of his picture-taking.

Article by Trevor Clarke, Adbusters magazine.

[tyger-land]

ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴘʏ ᴡᴀʟʟ sᴛʀᴇᴇᴛ poster created by Will Brown for 𝘼𝙙𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨, 2011.

[americanangele]

adbusted american apparel ad in hamburg, germany (2012)

photo by - tanja djordjevic

[wrapped-up-in-a-dream]

[mandy-malady]

[burgessshaledeposit]

ADBUSTERS, Spring 1996.

[kevindrakewriter]

[autonomoustweekazoid]

[vintage-tigre]

[bluepecanpie]

as a retrospective, occupy wall street was the endpoint of the kind of ‘horizontalist’ politics that was popularized with the anti-globalization movement. the involvement of adbusters in establishing the initial ows is more than enough to show us how direct this influence is. underpinning the anti-globalization movement in the global north was a reliance on the framework consecrated by liberalism, and idealist notions that democracy had been distorted from its optimal function by the presence of trans-national corporations bypassing the power of the state. the idea that in the first instance, the state is an instrument of class power - specifically the power of the bourgeoisie, in the capitalist epoch.

occupy’s failure, is the shared failure of that anti-globalization movement, and in between - that of the arab spring, which had seemingly exhausted imagination for another kind of social modality other than one informed by neoliberalism - islamist or not. even the anti-globalization movement came to fore as a sort of post-cold war rebuke of state socialism and the vanguardist politics used to set it up, only to fumble once confronted with the hard power of the state and especially great power conflicts - in a way that ‘actual existing socialist’ states could not do. the occupy movement also forgoed the kind of deep organising that could actually build class consciousness and galvanise the working class into making demands.

i’m not saying that the occupy movement was bad, or counterproductive: it politicized a generation of people, and broke out of this anhedonic, apathetic morose typical of atomised subjects under neoliberalism. I’m just saying that it was no threat to the ruling class, to any corporations, to anyone wearing the robes of institutional power. pro-ows assessment would rather we think how well ows spread and that was the real victory, like there wasn’t a demand for the neoliberal epoch - whether it was explicity stated or otherwise.

[sanguinesilverlining]

PS:

I mean no slight against the management staff folk. I know we're all human. Thus, I'm sorry that this situation is a doozy. It's the corporate system stepping on the little guy I can no longer accept.

[jbfly46]

LOL ADBUSTERS IS THE PRIVATIZED COINTELPRO ALGORITHM

[deepestdarkestfear]

Adbusters, Vol. 3 No. 2, summer 1994

[radicalgraff]

Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.