Re: [microsound] Buy Nothing Day? - [Authoritarianism inAdbusters... The Authors and the -Ism]

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i for one love consumerism. it fills that deep void of happiness in my li=
fe. so
warm and fuzzy.

regardless, on buy nothing day i just double my pirating of music and sof=
tware
to overcompensate. did i say double? make that triple.

bling bling.

g.

"tobias c. van Veen" wrote:

> I like Buy Nothing Day.
>
> But here are some questions to pose to Adbusters:
>
> http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog
> http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog/C277523597/E283721992/index.html
>
> [Authoritarianism in Adbusters... The Authors and the -Ism]
>
> "Adbusters sprouts from my hometown of Vancouver, and I1ve watched?&
> subscribed to?its culture jamming rag for several years. Every year, I
> approach within millimetres of unsubscribing from this glossy epic. The=

> reasons are varied, and usually to do with a heavy-handed bluntness to =
their
> jams, a simplification of issues, or more generally, a lack of meditati=
ve
> and critical content in favour of neverending copies of pharmaceutical =
and
> weapons advertisements and poorly-researched rants against =8Cpostmoder=
nists1
> another like ilk. Not enough adbusting, not enough perspectives on
> adbusting, not enough tactics, I find Adbusters to be wearing thin on h=
aving
> something to say beyond cynical, angry, rants that are ironically tryin=
g to
> be unironically passionate, if not romantic, in an age of commercially
> produced nostalgia for times that never were, those easy days of life.
> Adbusters has many authors, but over the past few issues, it has a
> self-asserted authority that is beginning to mirror the object of its
> attacks: authoritarianism."
>
> - tV
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >  Is anyone observing 'Buy Nothing Day' ? Or, is that too...Adbusters?=

> >
> >  I haven't purchased anything yet. I was considering window-shopping =
,
> > browsing if the rain stops. Do you think begging for coffee drinks wo=
uld
> > count...I mean if somebody else buys it ...
> >
> >
> >  (what does this have to do with microsound , you ask)I was thinking =
of
> > going to the bookstore , reading the Ergo Phizmiz article in The Wire=
 ,
> > complaining that the resealable plastic baggie that my notebook came =
in was
> > making too much noise , looking at them distainfully them leaving.Of =
course
> > I'd go back tomorrow, be very friendly and buy things.
> >
> >
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