Anti-Advertising
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Loading ...Believe it or not, there are quite a few anti-advertising groups, and even more oddly, they advertise. Groups like the Adbusters, and the Anti-Advertising Agency have been involved in re appropriating ads for their own personal message.
What doesn’t make sense to me, is calling it anti-advertising. Indeed, their message would not exist if it weren’t for advertising. I prefer the term “culture jamming” because it states clearly what these people are trying to do.
One should think of advertising as air. There’s good air, and bad air. I don’t think it’s possible for there to exist a world without advertising as it is ingrained into the human system of communication. Instead, I would prefer to be anti-ignorance advertising. Lets tear down all the ads that speak to people as if they were vacant cattle.
[update] Wrote me a real rambler of a post. Sorry if you can’t figure this out, I’m having a tough time myself.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Its almost like the US-Iraq war protest where this girl held up a poster that read, ‘ war for peace is like fucking for virginity ‘
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:53 pm
LMAO A Geek Story!!!
October 9th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
It’s just like anything else in life:
Too much advertising is bad advertising.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:40 am
But you can actually blame somebody for bad advertising but who do you hold responsible for too much advertising?
That’s a crucial difference. If you accept that the ‘problem’ is too much advertising, it will be impossible to do much improving. But if you carefully target the bad advertising, surely we can slow the flow.