Writings Published in Adbusters
"Philosophy at Zero Point", Adbusters #87 (Jan/Dec 2010):
We are in a moment of cultural stagnation where the only thing to say is that we have nothing to say. The great contemporary philosophers of our age are in intellectual retreat. Something about this historical moment is leaving the discipline of Western philosophy blind. (Read Article Online)
"Campus Uprising", Adbusters #83 (May/June 2009):
No one can predict with absolute certainty when the passions of youth will erupt. While the seeds of revolution are historically sown on campus, the evolution of a student uprising into prolific social change is anything but formulaic. But when something's rotten in the state of culture, the youth are the first to smell it. (Read Article Online)
"Philosopher Profiles: Nancy, Žižek and Connolly",Adbusters #82 (March/April 2009):
In the future, it will no longer be possible to speak of ourselves as single, static identities. Instead, our genders, races and cultures will be fluid: ever shifting depending on the mood we're in or the friends we're with. We will exist in a state of constant becoming, new identities always emerging. But how, in this state of perpetual change, can we ever hope to build a cohesive political movement? (Read Article Online)
"The Politics of Youth: Interview with Michael Hardt", Adbusters #82 (March/April 2009):
Michael Hardt is an American political philosopher and literary theorist. His ongoing collaboration with Antonio Negri has resulted in some of the most exciting books published on politics in recent decades. Micah White asked Michael Hardt whether he thinks Generation O has revolutionary potential. (Read Article Online)
"Blackspot Poem", Adbusters #80 (November/December 2008):
The blackspot points us toward an alternative present, a viable vision for transforming our communities into lush forests of homegrown culture, unhomogenized by corporate toxins. (Read Article Online | Download Article Scan)
"America's Revolutionary Moment", Adbusters #77 (May/June 2008):
Our momentum is growing. Bush is done, consumerism is collapsing and the patricians are dancing for plebeian votes. On the horizon appear presidential candidates who claim to be the source of our strength, but who are merely the symptom of the revolutionary thrust picking up again in America. (Read Article Online | Download Article Scan)
"Commit Facebook Suicide", Adbusters #77 (May/June 2008):
By turning members into consumers who involuntarily advertise to their friends, Facebook hoped to extract profit from social interactions. However, by commercializing friendships, Facebook has irrevocably destroyed its image. No longer a fun, harmless place to hang out, Facebook has become just another commercial enterprise. (Read Article Online | Download Article Scan)
"Redemption", Adbusters #76 (March/April 2008):
I often imagine what it would be like to wake up to a clean mental environment, one that it is without the toxins of advertising. But then how can someone expect to maintain a clean mental environment in today's modern world?
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"Blackspot the Future", Adbusters #75 (January/February 2008):
As my experience as an activist grows, one fact has become increasingly unavoidable: financial freedom is a prerequisite for radical thought and action. Without a source of income that does not require an ethical capitulation it is difficult, if not impossible, to maintain the culture jamming ethos.
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"Untitled", Adbusters #72(July/August 2007):
The era in which we live is described by Heidegger as the "Epoch of the Object."
This means that all beings (plants, animals, humans, gods, ideas, values) are taken as only objects. This is a flattening that explains the utter emptiness and desolation of our world.
The epoch of the object denies us access to Being (the source of all beings). We no longer question, "Why is there something rahter than nothing?" because we believe all beings are "made" by technology.
The epoch of the object also means that all thought has become "conceptual." Concepts are treated as objects therefore all conceptual thought is grounded in the object.
Translated Writings
"¿Están Wikipedia y Google homogeneizando nuestra cultura?", Blackspot Blog:
Estamos ante un terrible futuro, a menos que estemos dispuestos, con valentía, a decir no, a ignorar las verdades fáciles y a buscar los intrincados lugares del conocimiento. Lo que necesitamos ahora es aventureros de la verdad y exploradores de la sabiduría en la jungla del pensamiento que compartan sus descubrimientos fuera de la Red. Cuando las verdades más estimulantes puedan descubrirse únicamente con el ordenado apagado y en debate con nuestros amigos, habremos ganado la guerra contcontra la homogeneidad y estaremos más cerca de controlar nuestro futuro. (Traducido para Rebelión por S. Seguí)
"Laissez tomber l’activisme virtuel", Blackspot Blog:
Je comprends maintenant pourquoi les efforts précédents de ma génération pour empêcher la guerre en Irak ont échoué : les activistes, en tant qu’enfants du numérique, ont perdu leur capacité à réaliser des transformations dans leurs communautés locales à cause de leur dépendance excessive à Internet.(Traduction)
