Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews

Culture Jamming and Vaporwave

Episode Summary

Culture Jamming is a reactionary protest against media and consumerist culture that employs a wide range of tactics from photoshopping logos to vandalism and everything in between. There is no one right way to engage, one must merely push back against mass media on its own terms. On this episode we discuss our thoughts on culture jamming and how the practice relates to vaporwave and other haunted genres.

Episode Notes

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Culture Jamming is a reactionary protest against media and consumerist culture that employs a wide range of tactics from photoshopping logos to vandalism and everything in between. There is no one right way to engage, one must merely push back against mass media on its own terms. On this episode we discuss our thoughts on culture jamming and how the practice relates to vaporwave and other haunted genres.

Music Sampled

Rejected Theme Song from READY PLAYER ONE by Demi Adejuyigbe

Relevant Links

Culture Jamming, Memes, Social Networks, and the Emerging Media Ecology
Culture Jamming and Meme-based Communication
What Do You Mean By "Culture Jamming"?": An Interview with Moritz Fink and Marilyn DeLaure (Part One)
Culture Jamming: Subversion as Protest
Culture jamming: ideological struggle and the possibilities for social change
Non-Fungible Future: The Memeing of Mark Fisher
Could Vaporwave Save Your Soul?

Credits

Music by: 2Mello
Artwork by: Patsy McDowell
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