Fun and Laughter: Culture Jamming and the Emotional Regime of Late Capitalism

Wettergren, Åsa

doi:10.1080/14742830802591119

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“…It is a practice that coalesced around a concern with what its practitioners saw Social Movements in the Surveillance Society 185 as the corporate colonization of public life, representing in the ubiquitous presence of advertising. The intention of this mode of cultural hijacking is to disrupt, through satire and laughter, the normalized state of things (Wettergren, 2009). It does so by appropriating familiar objects, such as public advertisements, that have meshed with the urban landscape with little if any public consultation.…”

Section: Saying Something In New York Citymentioning

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Saying Something: The Location of Social Movements in the Surveillance Society

Jeffries

2011

Social Movement Studies

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Arguing for social movement-based critiques of public surveillance, this article proposes an alternative approach to the established parameters of research on the contemporary surveillance society. As cities become increasingly organized around a logic of insecurity and fear, there has been an eruption of concern and debate about the expansion of urban public surveillance. But most of the research on this subject has paid little attention to the deliberate, collective forms of political critique raised by anti-surveillance activism. Rather, the predominant focus has been on concerns about privacy rights, civil liberties, and the dilemmas of balancing freedom with security. Moreover, the prevailing critical narrative contends that the radical expansion of surveillance has been largely met with consent from the public. Moving beyond such a discourse of consent, this article examines two examples of cultural interventions that seek to contest the growth of public surveillance, not as a problem limited to the violation of privacy rights but as a process that signifies the metastasizing weaponization of everyday life and the authoritarian circulation of fear. I suggest that the significance of contemporary anti-surveillance activism is found in its embeddedness in broader struggles rather than in the opposition to surveillance as an autonomous political aim.

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Section: Saying Something In New York Citymentioning

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Saying Something: The Location of Social Movements in the Surveillance Society

Jeffries

2011

Social Movement Studies

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“…A su vez, la expansión del culture jamming ha traído consigo la del humor en la protesta. El humor es un elemento central en el culture jamming (Wettergren 2009), e internet ha facilitado su utilización en el desarrollo de esta estrategia simbólica. Los culture-jammers han abrazado el humor al mismo tiempo que "reconocen la capacidad de internet para hacer de la creación de parodias de anuncios algo mucho más fácil y suministrar una plataforma para que sus campañas y creaciones artísticas alcancen una audiencia mucho más amplia e internacional" ( el HumoR y la dImensIón exPResIva-…”

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“…Simplemente se pretende subrayar con ello el componente instrumental del humor, que en general ha sido infravalorado en la literatura especializada. Algunos trabajos recientes apuntan en esta dirección (Roy 2007;Kutz-Flamenbaum 2007;Wettergren 2009). Este artículo se enmarca dentro de esta tendencia.…”

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“No es una crisis, es que ya no te quiero". Humor y protesta en el movimiento 15M

Romanos

2016

Rev. int. sociol.

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“…It is widely recognised that cultural jamming has pioneered the practice of the bustering of consumerism, thereby creating the ecology of communication that is essential to many forms of media activism [34,16,36]. The various engagements of Avaaz and Adbuster to change the state of the world are punctuated by a common repertoire of action in spite of relevant distinctions in social and political organisation.…”

Section: From Adbuster To Avaaz the Cross-fertilisation Of Media Actmentioning

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“…The formation of an emergent reality of growing social mobility and cultural pluralisation being created by international migration, ethnic multiculturalism and multi-location of refugees has enlarged the space of the cosmopolitan citizen while the relevance of territory has decreased. This process is occurring in a context of risk and uncertainty [41,36], which includes millions of precarious lives that are engendered by natural and environmental disasters, public health emergencies, ethnic conflicts and poverty. The "dark side" of cosmopolitanism is revealed by the ways governmentality undertakes the control of people's mobility.…”

Section: Media Activism and Cosmopolitan Imaginationmentioning

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Making Sense of Life, Global Activism in the Cyberspace

Esu¹

2017

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Several recent works have examined the relationship between social media and social movements in the latest cycle of protest. The article examines how media activism provides a cross-fertilising communication process by shaping a cosmopolitan imagination. First the article proposes the cases of Adbuster and Avaaz, as two examples of media activism, equally engaged in changing the state of the world. The similarities and the differences between the two case studies are highlighted in order to understand how a cosmopolitan imagination, as a new challenge to the global information society, is constructed. Second, I will explore how action shapes an online community, bypassing state borders and takes on a form that shares visions, actions and strategies and develops a new common language, representing a balance between two sets of tensions: the politics of universalism versus the acknowledgement of difference and the responsibility for action.

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Fun and Laughter: Culture Jamming and the Emotional Regime of Late Capitalism

Cited by 49 publications

References 15 publications

Saying Something: The Location of Social Movements in the Surveillance Society

Saying Something: The Location of Social Movements in the Surveillance Society

“No es una crisis, es que ya no te quiero". Humor y protesta en el movimiento 15M

Making Sense of Life, Global Activism in the Cyberspace

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