Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America

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Adbusters is a magazine that attacks the culture of consumerism by turning its own tactics against it--employing the glossy tactics of advertising to encourage people to take part in "Buy Nothing Day" and "TV Turnoff Week." Culture Jam takes the revolution to another level, as the magazine's publisher, Kalle Lasn, issues a call to arms to "the advance shock troops of the most significant social movement" of the early 21st century. Dissatisfied with the results of both academic and mainstream liberalism and feminism, Lasn harks back to the situationist roots of the 1968 Paris uprisings, a brief moment when it seemed possible that men and women might be able to wholly re-create not only their own lives but society as well.

That revolution stumbled and fell, however, and Lasn views contemporary existence as one in which people have almost entirely succumbed to the cultural mandates of consumer capitalism, turning to corporations for guidance about how to look and what to desire. He offers several tips on how you can "demarket your life," including talking back to telemarketers and intensified boycotts (want to strike a blow against tobacco giant Philip Morris? Stop buying Maxwell House coffees, Kraft dairy products, Post cereals, and Miller beer). Lasn also pushes for the return of corporations to a subordinate role in people's lives, citing the 1886 U.S. Supreme Court decision that rendered corporations "natural persons" in the eyes of the law as a horrendous miscarriage of justice that must be overturned. (One of his biggest targets is media conglomerates who are able to disseminate their ideology throughout the information spectrum; in an ironic twist of fate, perhaps, the publisher of Culture Jam became a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation scant months before the book's release.)

Culture Jam is an extreme book--among its declarations: "consumer capitalism is by its very nature unethical"--and Lasn's reasoning is not without flaws. One of the weak links in his argument is his insistence that, because none of the major television networks will allow him to purchase airtime for his "subverts," there is "no democracy on the airwaves" and his freedom of speech is being denied. The First Amendment says only that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech"; it says nothing about what he deems the "right to communicate ... through any media." On the other hand, he also raises a more plausible line of attack--since it's the government that grants broadcasters access to the airwaves, citizens should press for more say in how broadcast licenses are distributed. But whatever the book's excesses, Lasn is driven by a righteous anger--and Culture Jam may likely convince you, too, that the models of material success presented to us are not only inadequate to true happiness, they must be overturned. --Ron Hogan

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According to Kalle Lasn, publisher of Adbusters magazine, culture jamming will become to our era what civil rights was to the '60s, what feminism was to the '70s, and what environmental activism was to the '80s. Culture jammers are a global network of media activists who assert that America is no longer a country, but a multitrillion-dollar brand, built on a cult of celebrity and marketing brand names. These brands, products, celebrities -- the spectacles that surround the production of culture -- are our culture now.

The architect of Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week, Lasn believes it is only by "uncooling" these symbols of culture, by organizing resistance against the institutions that manage the brands, that America can reassert herself. With cutting-edge design, this manifesto for the new millennium has the potential to completely alter the way we think and live.

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Culture Jam- an Eye Opener .......2004-12-17

Kalle Lasn's Culture Jam is a harsh and unforgiving reality check on the progression of American commercialism and, as a consequence, the decline of culture and community in the United States. By articulating the evils of television, advertising, and the media, Lasn illustrates to the reader the ways in which these technologies have warped and ravaged the brains of our generation. Arguing that these by-products of modernity are imbibed deep within our `culture', Lasn argues that the commercialist trend that Americans have so entrenched themselves within will inevitably damage the minds and spirits of our future as well, and lead to our eventual demise. Both chilling and insightful, Culture Jam is not only a narrative of the effects of commercialism, but one also of the loss of community that Americans have experienced as a result of the deep preoccupation we have developed with brand names through the mind numbing message we are fed constantly by the media and each other: buy, buy, buy.
By further illuminating the innumerable other evils of the multi-million dollar brand that is American, Lasn explains to the reader how concentrated corporate control, loss of a sense of real self, and the overriding emphasis we put on brand names, has led to the complete fall of the great American Dream. Caring about nothing, less what we own, and unable to even communicate with our loved ones without the comfortable buzz of our brand name electronic devices surrounding us, American's have become unable to settle with enough, and instead, yearn for the proverbial MORE. Lasn concludes with a challenge to the reader to deny this branding of America and break free from the bonds of consumerism and media.
What I thought to be a somewhat abrasive and self righteous attitude at the beginning of the book, I came to realize was merely an outrage over the state of America today and a deep and sincere appeal to the reader to join in this outrage in order to care enough to make a change. The harsh truth that, yes, "We, the people, have lost control" could be the wake up call that we need in order to begin to reject the serious crisis of mind controlling consumerism and understand that it truly shapes and dictates our very lives (71). Lasn wholeheartedly succeeds in his quest to jolt the reader out of his passive state of acceptance and to start the flow of dialogue about change and hope for a different future.

a starting point for living consciously.......2004-10-06

As a founder of the Adbusters organization and prominent activist himself, Kalle Lasn examines modern American society, media, and corporations and just how intertwined they all are in his 1999 work Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America.
Written in an interesting narrative style, Lasn describes many of the afflictions today's typical American suffer from and how we have become so accustomed to finding salvation in many different ways, essentially, in Corporate America.
He then delves further and demonstrates how Corporate America is not here for us, to provide us with all of the latest and greatest, but rather how it shapes us and exploits us.
All the while, he proposes that, due to the constraints of modern society, we are so disconnected from nature and the world at large that we are much more psychologically and physically affected than we may even be aware.
Lasn acknowledges the discouragement that many have when fighting for a change in society, but he offers up the fundamental idea behind this next revolution as "culture jamming" and provides some hope.
Culture Jam offers up new perspectives that are not always readily made to us in this society; the bottom line Lasn conveys is that we need to fight fire with fire and anybody can contribute, even in the most seemingly miniscule way.

No Culture Shock for me!.......2003-02-12

I found Culture Jam a good reference to the culture shock many Americans go through each day. The main argument refers to our lives as consumer and therefore media driven.
In reading Kalle Lasn's book, my eyes were opened by how consumer and media driven our lives are. Although, I already knew of this aspect as a consumer, the examples given had much reflection on what I consider an average middle class American life.
I wish that there were more information that did not reflect a great amount on the examples given. In this I mean that the author should give examples of the outside world.
Lasn opened the book with "Autumn", to assess the current damages of our consumer driven lives. The point that if we cut nature out of our lives that our spirits die is right on in a sense. When we totally rely on materialistic things, we do indeed lose our spirituality. We indeed have also become more virtual rather that relying on our "real" lives.
Classifying advertisements as "mental pollutants" was also a good analogy. We go through the motions of work everyday to earn money for the products we see advertised everyday in the media. Our lives are totally shaped by the media.
Huge corporations have become dominate by serving their own interests when they consistently put their products on the airwaves. But haven't those interests become our interests? Why isn't this explained? I think it is a major part of why we are like we are as consumers.
I didn't agree with the concept of the Situationists in the "Spring" section of the book. Why do they think the spectacle has been kidnapped? This is never really explained and doesn't bring any clear meaning to the page. By the way, the whole Situationists theory, if you can call it that, is a farce. I couldn't even read through this part in the book. It's just repeating itself over and over again.
I also did not find any meaning in the "We are not" sections of the book. Look at what we are for once. I don't really care for some negativity with no backup. It is just too much. If you really would care to look into it, everything still has the same meaning, it just depends how each individual looks at it. Why do we keep blaming others for the uncertainty and change? I am still cool!
The close of the book seemed to ramble on about thinking and doing things for yourself, which I feel left a lot of ends untied. I think the ending was just a way to get more pages in the book and very unhelpful. I think we can figure out on our own that we must "demarketise" our lives in order to be a greater society.

Not bad, but definitely not the best.......2003-02-10

Lasn begins the book Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America with several chapters devoted to the problems of American culture. We watch too much television. We have become desensitized to violence. We buy wholeheartedly into what corporate America tells us we should eat, wear, look like, be. We are a nation that interacts with the world through the "virtual" lenses of our cameras, our computers, our televisions. We have become disconnected from the natural world. While the list he lays out is nice, it's a relatively familiar litany of complaints about American consumerism.

However, the solutions that he offers later in the book seem to contradict each other. One of his main arguments is that our lives should be spent seeking and engaging in authentic gestures. On page 106, Lasn says "Living in the moment, pursuing the authentic gesture, living close to the edge -- call it what you will -- when it's genuine, it's the force that makes life worth living." Although I agree that much of our lives are inauthentic and dictated by corporate America, authenticity as a goal leaves a lot of room for scary interpretation. What if "living on the edge" for me is murder or rape? What if the thing that makes me feel most alive is setting my neighbor's house on fire? Is it fair to trample on the rights of others in our quest for authenticity? It's a little unsettling to me that Lasn's statement, whether he intended this or not, could be interpreted as advocating a society full of amoral chaos.

In addition, Lasn seems to contradict himself in the next section of his book. Lasn offers the reader many ideas of how they can take on corporate America. On page 149, Lasn informs us that "The real lesson here is that no battle is too small." Lasn teaches us how to fight back against the 1-800 headquarters of our bank when we are told that we will no longer be able to call our local branch directly. Lasn offers an example of how we can attack the Nike sponsorship of our university hockey team. The problem is not that these things are not worth doing (although one could question just how important a battle with the bank is when our president is about to send us to war). The problem is that Lasn seemed to be saying in the previous section that we should be striving for an authentic experience. What's authentic about replicating an experience that one read about in his book? And why is blindly following Lasn's ideas more authentic than blindly following American consumerism?

Although there are some inconsistencies and some of his statements are misguided, I believe Lasn's heart is in the right place. The reader gets the sense that he is very committed to his beliefs and his desire to effect positive change on the American culture. He's right that America needs changing, but I didn't find reason to believe that he's found a viable path to this change.

I'll take mine with idealism on the side.......2000-12-21

Okay, so Kalle Lasn is a bit over the edge sometimes. But honestly people, would you rather have someone who was a bit idealistic & had not only a strong vision but their heart in the right place OR some crusty chap who didn't bother to question or rally the masses? i'll cast my vote for the first, thanks. Kalle Lasn is just that. Perhaps there are some loopholes in his presentation and arguments, but who cares? He is one of the few who is speaking out against what the rest of us are being brainwashed by. So buy the book & learn a little--but don't buy the book... unless you want to feel counter-productive once you start reading it.

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A must read in this age of globalization and e-commerce

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Today's dramatic globalization parallels earlier historical periods of rapid technological change that brought contested benefits and costs. James Lee argues that the current pace of technological change is on a collision course with the human ability to absorb it, but that we can learn lessons from the past to help us resolve todays' problems.

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Recommended and informative for students of global trade.......2001-01-11

In Exploring The Gaps: Vital Links Between Trade, Environment And Culture, James Lee (director of the Trade Environment Database Project) focuses on the interrelationship and mutual influences and impacts between economic, ecological, and social factors. The rapid pace of globalization is seemingly outstripping human abilities to absorb the changes imposed by telecommunication, commerce, and resource exploitation. Very highly recommended and informative reading for students of environment issues, international trade, and cross-cultural studies, Exploring The Gaps features contemporary cases (including examples of endangered species) to underscore the dilemmas within environments and cultures. The reader will also be offered a strategy and approach for meeting the challenges that continued globalization presents.

A must read in this age of globalization and e-commerce.......2000-11-16

Exploring the Gaps, really does in itself fill the gaps between the current electronic age, and this global society that we live in, while giving us the historical context for the interconnectivity of these separate elements. This dynamic analysis brings in various points that should be considered in this age.

While many might suspect it to be purely academic, everyone from the dot-com manager to the international businessman will benefit from this book. International Trade, and Electronic Trade are not mutually exclusive terms anymore. This book makes that clearer than ever.

The historical perspectives offered here confirm that this process started ages before the "dot-com age". This historical context is invaluable. This is as much a history book as it is a book about the present and the future. There aren't many works that marry economics, anthropology, sociology, history and geography in such a fascinating manner, with implications for today's e-world.

One recommendation would be to have a few more graphics, but when read in conjunction with the websites listed, this book really does come alive in a sense.

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A must read in this age of globalization and e-commerce.......2000-11-16

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Cultivating Peace: Conflict and Collaboration in Natural Resource Management

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Cultivating Peace: Conflict and Collaboration in Natural Resource Management
Daniel Buckles
Manufacturer: World Bank Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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