“The common thread [of Culture Jamming] is mainly an urge to make fun of the homogenous nature of popular culture” (Wikipedia). The main objective of Culture Jamming is to make the public aware of their current environment, and while doing so, to make them laugh at the farce that is pop culture. Culture Jamming also provokes interest in various aspects of our culture and presents us with certain contrast about a particular facet within the media. Some of my previous blogs even represent the ideas of a culture jammer; I don’t actually say OMGWTFLOLSRSLY?!11!1!?...But people do, they ACTUALLY do.
Adbusters Media Foundation consists of people who call themselves “a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age” (Adbusters). Adbusters is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1989. After almost completing my first semester of university, I have realized a couple things: [1] I am not as good at English as I thought I was. High school English was deceiving. [2] I do not have the patience to be an artist, though my results are usually decent (not that I was planning on being a “professional artist” anyways. What are the chances of that working out?). [3] Culture jamming is the ideal career for a cynical, witty, yet surprisingly elated girl, like myself.
My essay for this class was inspired by an Adbusters article. The article, entitled “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization” quite clearly speaks of the current “Hipsterdom” in today’s society. The ideas presented in the essay were that of my own, however I used the article to underlay my arguments. [http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html] I recommend you read it, if you haven’t already. Without reiterating my essay, hipsters combine clothing fashions from many different fashion eras, usually share artistic and aesthetic interests, and are somewhat pretentious and intimidating to those who do not classify this scene. The farce of Hipsterdom is only one of my favourite articles that I have seen in Adbusters Magazine.
OMGLOLTTYL.
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