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Crucified by Capitalism
December 28, 2020
Explanations for the collapse cannot be summed up in a single idea or one catastrophic event.
Read articleRead articleWe decided to call our magazine Adbusters.
December 22, 2020
We vowed never to sell any space to advertisers.Then we embarked on an aesthetic journey. A journey, you might say, to get off the grid . . . to blow up the precepts and norms of print . . . to create a magazine that was less about content you “consume” than a river you jump into and are swept downstream.
Read articleRead articleKeepers of Mindscape
December 16, 2020
Do we still have it? Can we invent new aesthetics, design sustainable products and rid our cities of waste . . . cultivate new sensibilities for our post-materialist age?
Read articleRead articleStructures of Feeling
December 14, 2020
The critic Raymond Williams once wrote that every historical period has its own “structure of feeling.” How everything seemed in the 1960s, the way the Victorians understood one another, the chivalry of the Middle Ages, the world view of Tang-dynasty China: each period, Williams thought, had a distinct way of organizing basic human emotions into an overarching cultural system. Each had its own way of experiencing being alive.
Read articleRead articleLiberal Hawks
December 9, 2020
You’ve heard the terms. Liberal hawk. War dove. Academic circles may prefer ‘liberal interventionist.’ The term applies to left-wingers who are committed to using military force to preserve and promote human rights. Their support for the invasion of Iraq confused some people. Aren’t lefties supposed to oppose the war?
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Underlying any viable aesthetic movement
December 1, 2020
Underlying any viable aesthetic movement is a broader philosophy, a loosely unifying worldview that connects the artists working within it.
Read articleRead articleWhy Only Old Military Men?
November 27, 2020
In 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, a group of several dozen white women, their husbands, and Frederick Douglass gathered to discuss the feminist “Declaration of Sentiments.”
Read articleRead articleSlavery, Plunder, Colonialism
November 19, 2020
The Haitian Revolution began as a slave revolt in 1791. The French and their allies fought for a decade to regain the colony but lost. It became the first black republic in the Americas in 1804.
Read articleRead articleAt my Quaker Meeting,
November 6, 2020
At my Quaker Meeting, occasionally someone will say, “Could we have some silence please?” especially during a business meeting, which we call Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business. Someone may request silence when the discussion becomes too contentious, and we are not progressing towards resolution. We wait and listen.
Read articleRead articlefair play and cancel culture, men and women
October 21, 2020
superficially, at least, the old-fashioned rules of fair play resemble the rough and tumble of sports, combat, and other forms of traditionally male competition. one seeks to defeat one’s opponent—brutally, if need be—but the violence, crucially, is limited to the field of play.
Read articleRead articleBig Tech Is Silencing Free Speech . . . Including Ours
October 14, 2020
Amid the hysteria of this post-truth moment, we at Adbusters have been made the target of a counter-campaign of misinformation and intimidation. Since we launched the “White House Siege” late in July, the far right’s conspiracy theory–fuelled propaganda machine has attempted to stoke outlandish fears, falsely portraying us as violence-inciting, looting, pillaging bogeymen.
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Incomprehensible world
October 13, 2020
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.
Read articleRead articleOh no!!
October 9, 2020
It was a grim day early in spring when the alarm-bells rang. On March 11, the WHO declare d the global outbreak of the coronavirus a pandemic. By early April, as the economy plunged more perilously than at any time since the Great Depression, half of the world’s population was at home under some form of self- confinement. With humanity retreating indoors, rates of fossil-fuel consumption slumped and greenhouse-gas emissions plummeted.
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October 2, 2020
Dear people of the Adbusters Media Foundation,We are Afra van den Hoogen, Mila Vuckovic and Nick Verkroost; three first year students of the Audiovisual Media-studies at the University of the Arts in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Last semester we followed a subject about 'culture jamming', for which we created a poster about this subject.
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