Notes on Culture Jamming 

"Culture-jamming," a term I have popularized by articles in The New York Times and Adbusters, might best be defined as media hacking, information warfare, terror-art, and guerrilla semiotics, all in one. Billboard bandits, pirate TV and radio broadcasters, media hoaxers, and other vernacular media wrenchers who intrude on the intruders, investing ads, newscasts, and other media artifacts with subversive meanings are all culture- jammers." Mark Dery

Damn the Networks! Victory to the Imagination!
Yogi in Craig Baldwin's "Spectres of the Spectrum"

• culture jamming

The Twitter Revolution Must Die 

Have you ever heard of the Leica Revolution? No?

• media criticism,
• participatory media,
• twitter

Natalia Mazotte

Natália Mazotte is a Brazilian journalist from Rio de Janeiro with a background in social and technological issues related to the creation and sharing of knowledge. She writes for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, of Texas University, and works for a Brazilian NGO named Ibase. She is a researcher and fellow in the Graduate Programme of Culture and Communication of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

• grassroot journalism,
• diy media

Free Bitflows 

In early June 2004 a digital culture event was be held in Vienna to examine the theories and practices for making new cultures of access viable.

• politics,
• culture,
• free software

Organisation of the Organisationless 

Collective Action After Networks

Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute and the Post-Media Lab.

• network cultures,
• activism,
• net.activism,
• post-governmental organisation,
• occupy

Parasitic Media 

By Nathan M Martin for The Carbon Defense League, September 2002
A parasite is defined as ?an organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.? The tactics of appropriation have been co-opted. Illegal action has become advertisement. Protest has become cliché. Revolt has become passé. These disputes have reached the definition of rhetoric. They are the usual suspects. Having accepted these failures to some degree, we can now attempt to define a parasitic tactical response. We need a practice that allows invisible subversion. We need to feed and grow inside existing communication systems while contributing nothing to their survival; we need to become parasites. We need to create an anthem for the bottom feeders and leeches. We need to echo our voice through all the wires we can tap but cloak our identity in the world of non-evidence, and the hidden.

Eveline Lubbers

Eveline Lubbers (NL), monitoring police and secret services since the eighties, supporting social activist groups against oppressive surveillance tactics of authorities. Recently she specialized in corporate intelligence and PR-strategies of multinationals against their critics- including net- activists.

• campaign,
• grassroot journalism,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism

A call to the Army of Love and to the Army of Software 

October 2011.

The fight opposing financial dictatorship is erupting. The so-called 'financial markets' and their cynical services are destroying the very foundations of social civilization.

• politics,
• infopolitics,
• precarity,
• street protest,
• tactical camping,
• austerity