Culture Jam

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America is no longer a country, but a multi-million dollar brand. Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way the information flws, the way institutions weild power, the way television stations are run, and the way food, fashion, automobile, sports, music, and culture industries set agendas.

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"A brilliant and essential manual for our species."--David C. Korten, author of "The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism"This is the culture jammer's call to reverse the suicidal consumer binges while there is still time."--George Gerbner, founder of the Cultural Environment Movement"Kalle Lasn is callenging the mental stranglehold of advertising culture."--Polly Ghazi, "Resurgence magazine

Author Bio

Featured in the PBS documentary Affluenza, Kalle Lasn, whose documentaries have been broadcast on PBS, CBC, and around the world, has won 15 international awards, and has been profiled in Time. As publisher of Adbusters magazine and founder of Media Foundation and Powershift Advertising Agency, Lasn has launched social marketing campaigns like Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week. He and his wife, Masako Tominaga, make their home in Vancouver, Canada.