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The Ministry of Reshelving

Monday, February 20th, 2006

The Ministry of Reshelving wants to move Orwell’s 1984 to the Non-Fiction section at your local bookstore. Help ‘em out. There are downloads to do this at your home.

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Culture Jamming: Subverting Popular Media Strategies

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

A new course has been added to the MFA program in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College. The new course taught by artist Heidi Cody is in culture jamming.
The course description:
“How can one publicly communicate a fresh, content-driven idea, in a culture oversaturated with mind-numbing consumer culture? Culture Jamming: Subverting Popular Media Strategies investigates [...]

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the status corp

In a technology infused culture, advertising and media images show us how certain commodities are very accessible. These images, combined with a shift towards a debt-based culture, have turned these commodities into objects of desire. Items reserved once only for the very wealthy are being marketed to those who will sink into debt to achieve the status the objects imply.

The status corp is a forum to question the validity of these messages and our roles as consumers, to document examples of over-consumption and its critique in media and art, and to highlight examples of egregious wealth and the chasm between the very wealthy and the working class.