Language out of Language: Excavating the Roots of Culture Jamming and Postmodern Activism from William S. Burroughs' Nova Trilogy

Tietchen, Todd F.

doi:10.1353/dis.2001.0025

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“…Adbusters uses the forms of media that viewers are already familiar with, and takes advantage of the power of already‐existing memes that are part of consumer consciousness. However, through subvertisements, Adbusters “jams” or disrupts dominant memes in ways that expose negative social, environmental, cultural, or ethical consequences of the practices of multinational corporations; in so doing, Adbusters lures viewers into interactions “with ‘alternative’ subject matter which poses as a ‘dominant’ media deployment” (Tietchen, 2001, p. 117). Thus Adbusters ’ subvertisements operate like vaccines or antidotes to memes, as they shake us out of consumer trances and refocus our attention on messages that run counter to dominant media ideology (Boyd, 2002).…”

Section: Culture Jamming As Critical Public Pedagogymentioning

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“Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics”: Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy

Sandlin

Milam

2008

Curriculum Inquiry

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Culture jamming, the act of resisting and re-creating commercial culture in order to transform society, is embraced by groups and individuals who seek to critique and (re)form how culture is created and enacted in our daily lives. In this article, we explore how two groups-Adbusters and Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping-use culture jamming as a means of resisting consumerism. We theorize how culture jamming as practiced operates as critical public pedagogy, through the ways in which it (1) fosters participatory, resistant cultural production; (2) engages learners corporeally; (3) creates a (poetic) community politic; and (4) opens transitional spaces through détournement (a "turning around"). We propose that when viewed as critical public pedagogy, culture jamming holds potential to connect learners with one another and to connect individual lives to social issues-both in and beyond the classroom. However, we also posit that culture jamming as critical public pedagogy is not a panacea nor without problems. We also discuss how culture jamming may in fact at times hinder critical learning by imposing a rigid presence on the viewer-learner that limits creativity and transgression, and how it risks becoming co-opted by the very market forces of capitalism it opposes.

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“Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics”: Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy

Sandlin

Milam

2008

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“…Estas imágenes tienen el potencial de conectar individualidades con colectivos concretos que se sienten interpelados por la misma consciencia social (Sandlin y Milam, 2008). A mediados de los años ochenta aparecen en Estados Unidos las prácticas de culture jamming o guerrilla semiótica (Tietchen, 2001) dedicadas a deconstruir las representaciones dominantes, se sitúan en el mismo plano que el arte crítico pero opera desde los medios de comunicación y la cultura pop (Fraj, 2015).…”

Section: Subpolítica Queer Onlineunclassified

“…Por ello, hay que preguntarse por la manera en la que las experiencias personales y las mediatizaciones se van entrelazando en un flujo de identificaciones y contestaciones (Price, 1998;Moran, 2003) y qué tipo de resistencias a la hegemonización de la cultura popular (Tietchen, 2001;Kellner y Kim, 2010), a lo dominante (Fraser, 1990;Hall, 1997) y a lo normativo (Halberstam, 2018) contienen los discursos multimodales online de los contrapúblicos LGTBIQ+.…”

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La reapropiación del insulto como resistencia queer en el universo digital: el caso Gaysper

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Gálvez

2021

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El auge y resurgimiento de grupos extremistas conservadores en el Estado español ha venido acompañado de un incremento de imágenes y mensajes de odio contra el feminismo y el colectivo LGTBIQ+ (Kimmel, 2019; Halberstam, 2018). Los discursos hegemónicos y no hegemónicos se encuentran en una batalla por la representación (Hall, 1997) de la que los grupos minoritarios han quedado excluidos y discriminados. La democratización que han supuesto las redes sociales ha generado un espacio crítico desde el que los públicos no hegemónicos pueden subvertir los discursos dominantes y generar nuevas imágenes simbólicas a partir de la apropiación y el sabotaje cultural (Morduchowicz, 2012; Harold, 2004). Este fue el caso de “Gaysper”, un fantasma con la bandera del orgullo LGTBIQ+, que el partido político Vox empleó en un meme de internet para representar al colectivo como uno de los enemigos nacionales. Esta investigación se ha realizado a partir de un análisis crítico del caso de estudio mencionado así como la constitución de dos grupos de discusión con participantes del debate online. El artículo supone una reflexión crítica sobre el apropiacionismo y el uso del humor como herramientas subversivas de desactivación a los ataques homófobos y sexistas de las nuevas olas conservadoras. “Gaysper” ejemplifica la consolidación de las redes sociales como escenario excepcional para la construcción de identidades políticas, y un símbolo del poder creativo del colectivo LGTBIQ+ para convertir en orgullo y esperanza, lo que surgió desde la violencia homófoba y sexista.

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“…The reverberation of the cut-up back to Dada is also clear in "CALLING ALL REACTIVE AGENTS" in a message to engage the reader in direct forms of Dada-aesthetic guerilla action and revolt. 6 The lines repeat a wide message of warning through the strategic employment of culture jamming and guerrilla semiotics (Tietchen 2001). Such a call to engage in violent aesthetic action echoes not just Dada but the more radical elements of the environmental movement such as the Deep Green Resistance movement, which advocates an uprising against capitalist infrastructure, compliant corporations, and corrupt governments in the worldwide struggle for what McBay, Keith and Jensen believe is survival.…”

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“…Existing scholarship establishes the connections between Dada and the cut-up strategy. SeeZurbrugg (1979);Lydenberg (1987);Stephenson (1990);Watters (1995);Harris (1996Harris ( , 2004;Tietchen (2001);Grace (2004);Collins (2005);Rettberg (2008); Bolton (2010); Robinson (2011); Pawlik (2013); Weidner (2013);Rasula (2014). See alsoSkinner (2001).…”

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The Glorious Plagiarism, Trash Aesthetics, and Ecological Entropy of Cryptic Cut-Ups from Minutes to Go

Weidner

2019

Humanities

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This paper examines some of the many ways in which example early cut-ups from Minutes to Go recall canonical literary forms, revive the revolutionary destructive urgency of Dada aesthetics, as well as contribute to wider environmental concerns. How do unusual examples of radically experimental literature contribute to how people think about the environment? What can additional consideration of the cut-up manifesto Minutes to Go tell us about the relationship between culture and nature? This paper suggests that unstudied examples of cryptic cut-ups from Minutes to Go participate in cultural recycling through the Glorious Plagiarism of canonical texts, and what emerges from the Dada Compost Grinder is a trash aesthetic that highlights the voids of both consumer and material culture.

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Language out of Language: Excavating the Roots of Culture Jamming and Postmodern Activism from William S. Burroughs' Nova Trilogy

Cited by 10 publications

References 10 publications

“Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics”: Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy

“Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics”: Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy

La reapropiación del insulto como resistencia queer en el universo digital: el caso Gaysper

The Glorious Plagiarism, Trash Aesthetics, and Ecological Entropy of Cryptic Cut-Ups from Minutes to Go

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