act:
- interrupt, subvert messages (memes) of dominant corporate, consumer culture
- appropriate, reframe media meanings/content/forms using irony, satire
- jar audience emotions to reexamine unquestioned conformist premises
- take over public/private space
- challenge corporate-state including surveillance practices, lack of transparency
modes:
- visual – graphic design, Adbusters, Barbara Kruger, graffiti, Banksy, defacing billboards
- media criticism – Jean Kilbourne, Killing Us Softly, Sut Jhally, Dreamworlds
- music – sampling, mash-up, illegal downloading
- performance — Jon Stewart, Utube parody, Reverend Billy, Guerilla Girls, flash mobs
- hacktivism — Anonymous, Wikileaks-Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden
- critical public discourse through meme-shifting: @# “Black Lives Matter“
- public space — Critical Mass monthly Friday rush hour bike rallies, UK Reclaim the Streets, Los Indignados (Spain), Occupy