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• Business: Advertising: Opposing Views: Critical Commentary  (18)

• Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters - Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters. Famous for their spoof ads.
• Anti Commercial Culture Ring - "Our mission is to promote cynicism. An anthropologist would tell you that garbage like Steven Segal's latest movie (which he'll happily tell you is great "family viewing"), Ford Motor corporation, and McDonalds are all part of Western culture. I would sooner see a bunch of Iranian terrorists nuke us to sparks with bombs they bought from Russia than have this "culture" continue it's advance towards world dominance. We are disgusted that all the sixties really accomplished in the long run is The Spice Girls."
• Billboard Liberation Front - "Improving" outdoor advertising since 1977.
• Blimp: At Play in the Media Scrapheap - "Sonic Outlaws" by Craig Baldwin - [English w/German summary] by Jesse Lerner
• Cicada Corps of Artists - "Cicada billboard alteration embraces the idea of using the negative against itself."
• Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Full text of the culture jamming manifesto by Mark Dery, popularizer of the term "culture jamming"
• Die Kommunikationsguerilla - [German, English, Dutch]
• Electronic Civil Disobedience - Archive for the Electronic Disturbance Theater, a "hacktivism" RealAudio program. Organizers of Jam Echelon Day, among other events.
• Guerrilla Art - Boston-art culture jammer who turned a shopping cart into an anti-commercialist projection booth/deprograming unit. Site includes an online game.
• HocusFocus - Hocus Focus produces replacement copy for the Apple "Think Different" billboards with anti-consumerist quotes from the subjects.
• Idiosyntactix Culture Jammers' Encyclopedia - From media hoaxes to counterfeits, from modest proposals to pseudoscience, from religion to performance art, from vandalism to forgery, culture jamming uses all the tools
• Joey Skaggs - Since 1966, Skaggs has hoaxed media outlets around the world with pranks like The Celebrity Sperm Bank, Cockroach Vitamin Pills and Dog Meat Soup.
• Los Angeles Cacophony Society - Subversion, Spectacles, Pranks, Art, Fringe Explorations; Current Activities and Archives.
• Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium - Mark Dery popularized the term "culture jamming", and wrote a pamphlet titled "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs"
• People for Ethical Evolutionary Practices - Hoax site "exposing" BioPEEP, a group of scientists focused on creating consumer product junkies by distributing a genetic virus in consumable products.
• Plagiarist.org - Internet art site comprised of strategically-modified internet content.
• Ron English POPaganda! - Prolific producer of surreal and parodic billboard art since 1982.

• sfweekly.com: The Medium is the Message - "A new generation of Bay Area 'culture jammers' manipulates media manipulation" - by Sam Williams (April 14, 1999)
• Salon: Dis Capital - by Heather Chaplin - "When Andy Cox spent $798 dollars on an ad-campaign criticizing our economic system, he trammeled one of the last taboos of our loose-lipped era." (August 28, 1998)
• E: Cultural Jammin' - "The Media Foundation Uses Guerrilla Tactics Against Advertising Excess" - by Jim Motavalli (May, 1996)

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