Remix Manifesto Debrief

• Manifesto
• Culture always builds on the past
• i.e. folk culture
• The past always tries to control the future
• recording industry, copyright
• Our future is becoming less free 
• do you agree?
• To build free societies you must limit the control of the past
• is doing remix an act of activism?

“It’s part of evolution” - how does this relate to our study of memes?

• “We have a mouse disease” 

Why is a critical take on capitalism important to this issue?

• What used to be free culture is now used as a means for corporations to make a profit - everything can be commodified in a society ruled by the “free” market
• Culture Jamming - corporations don’t ask us if we want to hear their pitches, why should we ask them?
• Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication) is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including (but not limited to) corporate advertising. It attempts to "expose the methods of domination" of a mass society to foster progressive change. Culture jamming is a form of subvertising. Many culture jams are intended to expose questionable political assumptions behind commercial culture. Tactics include re-figuring logos; fashion statements; and product images as a means to challenge the idea of "what's cool." Culture jamming often entails using mass media to produce ironic or satirical commentary about itself, commonly using the original medium's communication method."

• http://www.gimp.org/ - Open source Photoshop alternative