#adbusters

[kevindrakewriter]

[burgessshaledeposit]

ADBUSTERS, Spring 1996.

[autonomoustweekazoid]

[spilladabalia]

Adbusters

[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.

[jbfly46]

LOL ADBUSTERS IS THE PRIVATIZED COINTELPRO ALGORITHM

[philipphille]

Knittel unbekannt

2021 ° phh

[standarddesigns]

To go along with my 'Revolutionary Tinkle' piece (check the website) I've created this new print, for everyone who feels that those who have too much are *really* spoiling life for the rest of us, the selfish gits! It's available from the Standard Designs website right now - tap the image/link in bio. #revolutionary #therich #1percent #99percent #penandink #humor #satire #humorousart #satiricalart #adbusters #protestposters #blackandwhite #drawing #print #homedecor #scandidesign #scandiboho #strike #icannothelpyou #standarddesigns #printmaking #artgifts #museumprints #artgalleryprints #artgiftideas https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl4Xi0XI4WU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[radicalgraff]

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

[spilladabalia]

[djhamaradio]

I have made an oath to do all in my power to not incorporate AI into my creative process. Peep cool as article from the wonderful folks at Adbusters

[spaceintruderdetector]

adbusters march 2001 The Cyber is

''We're all just brains ina vat. The reality, of course, isn’t so simple. Your mind doesn't inhabit one world, either “real” or “virtual.” Instead, it travels back and forth between these worlds, dragging traces of one into the other, traversing the traces left behind by billions of others. The threat you face isn’t a virtual matrix pulled over your eyes or plugged into the back of your head; the threat is a slow contamination from long-term exposure.''

Adbusters # 34 The Cyborg Manifesto : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[burgessshaledeposit]

Anti-car flyer designed to look like a parking ticket. Insert from ADBUSTERS magazine, Spring 1996.

[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.