From Abbie Hoffman to Hothead Paisan: A Brief History (and Practice) of Culture Jamming

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The term culture jamming comes from broadcasting terminology for jamming the airwaves and involves ways of making your own media to counter the media messages we see every day. We’ll look at the history of culture jamming, including the Situationists International and the Yippies from the 1960s, feminist zines from the 1980s and 1990s, among others. We’ll watch movies, have discussion, and participate in some low cost/low tech (but potentially high visibility) culture jamming of our own.

Class Details
Class times: 
September 30, 2009 - 7:00pm - October 26, 2009 - 9:00pm
Class Location
Address: 
Blegen Hall at UMN Room 150Minneapolis, MN
United States
44° 58' 38.9352" N, 93° 15' 51.6636" W
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Facilitator Information
Facilitator username(s): 
fluffysingler
Facilitator email(s): 
fluffysingler@earthlink.net
Facilitator's experience: 
I have culture jammed for years, including publishing my own zine, the Hairy-Legged Man-Hating Feminist Gazette in the 1990s (but don’t worry, men are welcome to attend the class. I’m over it.) and have also taught a culture jamming segment in Drama and the Media (TH1102) for three semester.
Facilitator phone number(s): 
651-276-4758
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Culture Jamming -- having blog problems

Submitted by fluffysingler on March 13, 2010 - 4:33pm

HI all.  As you can probably see I've been trying to upload files all day--literally like 3 or 4 hours--and I'm having problems with the blog function.  Some are beyond my control and some are a result of the size of the files, which have a lot of graphics in them.  Please write me/respond to this message and I will send you the articles for this week.  I'll have copies in class too, but it'll be great if you can read them ahead of time.

 

If you can't come this week, you are still welcomed to come and jump in the following week, so don't let that keep you away!  We're going to talk about the articles and watch about an hour of a film called Can Dialectics Break Bricks.  It should be really fun!

I'm sending this to last semester's class too.  If you didn't make all the sessions and want to join in again, please do! 

 

See you Thursday.

Laura

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Interesting site for culture jammers

Submitted by fluffysingler on October 8, 2009 - 5:32pm

I was looking at articles in a journal and this group came up. Their site looks really interesting.

http://freee.org.uk/

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