Index
Contents
Foreword xi
Mark Dery
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
Marilyn DeLaure and Moritz Fink
Part I. Definitions and Debates
1. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the
Empire of Signs 39
Mark Dery
2. Pranking Rhetoric: “Culture Jamming” as Media Activism 62
Christine Harold
3. The Faker as Producer: The Politics of Fabrication and the
Three Orders of the Fake 91
Marco Deseriis
4. Putting the “Jamming” into Culture Jamming: Theory,
Praxis, and Cultural Production during the Arab Spring 113
Mark LeVine
5. From Culture Jamming to Cultural Acupuncture 133
Henry Jenkins
Part II. Critical Case Studies
6. Radical Scavenging Revisited: Emile de Antonio and the
Culture Jamming of Compilation Film 161
Christof Decker
7. Never Mind the Bollocks: Shepard Fairey’s Fight for
Appropriation, Fair Use, and Free Culture 179
Evelyn McDonnell
8. Facing: Image and Politics in JR’s Global Street Art
(2004– 2012) 201
Michael LeVan
9. Answering Back! Banksy’s Street Art and the Power
Relations of Public Space 218
Benedikt Feiten
10. Co-Opting the Culture Jammers: The Guerrilla Marketing
of Crispin Porter + Bogusky 237
Michael Serazio
11. Culture Jamming in Prime Time: The Simpsons and the
Tradition of Corporate Satire 254
Moritz Fink
12. The Poetics of Ruptural Performance 280
Tony Perucci
13. Turning Tricks: Culture Jamming and the Flash Mob 300
Rebecca Walker
14. Memes, Movements, and Meteorology: Occupy Wall Street
and New Mutations in Culture Jamming 322
Jack Bratich
15. Jamming the Simulacrum: On Drones, Virtual Reality, and
Real Wars 348
Wazhmah Osman
16. Balaclavas and Putin: Pussy Riot, Carnivalesque Protest,
and Political Culture Jamming in Russia 365
Anna Baranchuk
Part III. Culture Jammers’ Studio
17. The Day I Killed Freedom of Expression 393
Kembrew McLeod
18. Notes on the Economic Unconscious from a Billionaire
for Bush 402
Andrew Boyd
19. Artwork and Commentary 405
The Guerrilla Girls
20. Delocator.net: Using the Web to Organize and Promote
Alternative Behaviors 410
xtine burrough
21. The Yes Men: An Interview 418
Marilyn DeLaure
22. Networked Reality Flow Hacks 423
Paolo Cirio
23. IOCOSE: Art, Authority, and Culture Jamming 427
Paolo Ruffino, Matteo Cremonesi, Filippo Cuttica, and
Davide Prati (IOCOSE)
24. “Say Yes”: An Interview with Reverend Billy and Savitri D 433
Marilyn DeLaure
About the Contributors 441
Index 449