Contents

Foreword

Mark Dery

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Marilyn DeLaure and Moritz Fink

Part I. Definitions and Debates

1. Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs

Mark Dery

2. Pranking Rhetoric: “Culture Jamming” as Media Activism

Christine Harold

3. The Faker as Producer: The Politics of Fabrication and the Three Orders of the Fake

Marco Deseriis

4. Putting the “Jamming” into Culture Jamming: Theory, Praxis, and Cultural Production during the Arab Spring

Mark LeVine

5. From Culture Jamming to Cultural Acupuncture

Henry Jenkins

Part II. Critical Case Studies

6. Radical Scavenging Revisited: Emile de Antonio and the Culture Jamming of Compilation Film

Christof Decker

7. Never Mind the Bollocks: Shepard Fairey’s Fight for Appropriation, Fair Use, and Free Culture

Evelyn McDonnell

8. Facing: Image and Politics in JR’s Global Street Art (2004–2012)

Michael LeVan

9. Answering Back! Banksy’s Street Art and the Power Relations of Public Space

Benedikt Feiten

10. Co-Opting the Culture Jammers: The Guerrilla Marketing of Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Michael Serazio

11. Culture Jamming in Prime Time: The Simpsons and the Tradition of Corporate Satire

Moritz Fink

12. The Poetics of Ruptural Performance

Tony Perucci

13. Turning Tricks: Culture Jamming and the Flash Mob

Rebecca Walker

14. Memes, Movements, and Meteorology: Occupy Wall Street and New Mutations in Culture Jamming

Jack Bratich

15. Jamming the Simulacrum: On Drones, Virtual Reality, and Real Wars

Wazhmah Osman

16. Balaclavas and Putin: Pussy Riot, Carnivalesque Protest, and Political Culture Jamming in Russia

Anna Baranchuk

Part III. Culture Jammers’ Studio

17. The Day I Killed Freedom of Expression

Kembrew McLeod

18. Notes on the Economic Unconscious from a Billionaire for Bush

Andrew Boyd

19. Artwork and Commentary

The Guerrilla Girls

20. Delocator.net: Using the Web to Organize and Promote Alternative Behaviors

xtine burrough

21. The Yes Men: An Interview

Marilyn DeLaure

22. Networked Reality Flow Hacks

Paolo Cirio

23. IOCOSE: Art, Authority, and Culture Jamming

Paolo Ruffino, Matteo Cremonesi, Filippo Cuttica, and Davide Prati (IOCOSE)

24. “Say Yes”: An Interview with Reverend Billy and Savitri D

Marilyn DeLaure

About the Contributors

Index