How do you explain the growth of corporate media and viral marketing in a country where 'Star Wars' never even hit the theatres, and brand names like Nike and Gap are both made and pirated routinely? A country where punk rock never made a splash because there was a war ...
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Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing and the Erosion of Integrity
Wednesday, January 16, 5:45 pm
Srey Dim Conference Hall PUC South Campus
No. 184 Norodom Blvd. (South of Independence Monument)
The endless pursuit by corporations of the youth market demands that advertising and marketing experts construct new tactics to attract youthful buyers. ...
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Posted in news, visual art on Jan 10th, 2008
Year of the Golden Pig @ Java
Sasha Constable and Vincent Brustet put on a fun show:
Vincent was interested in the process of consumption of pigs, how our daily life is so close to their lives and deaths.
Is there a pig heaven? This (below) kind resembles pig limbo. (Pigs in ...
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You heard it here first; Harpswell Foundation Leadership Resident/activist/zinester Anne Elizabeth Moore will be doing a talk on her book Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing and the Erosion of Integrity this coming Wednesday January 16th.
Time and place to be announced shortly.
Linkage:
Book: @ http://www.thenewpress.com
Blog: http://camblogdia.blogspot.com
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In totally unrelated news:
*I'm 'porting' over some old ...
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Posted in academia, history, khmer rouge, news on Jan 7th, 2008
Welcome to another 'Victory Against the Genocidal Regime' day. (Formerly the 'Day of Hate'.)
January 7 is marked on local calendars as a day of celebration for the liberation of (much) of Cambodia from 'Pol Pot'. I have respect for soldiers of any nationality who lost their lives fighting the ...
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