Can jokes bring down governments?
Marts 21, 2017
rum46
19:00 – 21:00
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Deltagere: 3
Introduktion: Mark Tholander & Michael Roloff
På denne tirsdag ser vi nærmere på det Amsterdambaserede designkollektiv Metahaven, der orienterer sig mod politik og æstetik. Bureauet er grundlagt af Daniel van der Velden & Vinca Kruk, hvis arbejde reflekterer og diskuterer politiske og sociale bevægelser gennem research-driven design og design-driven research.
Til denne diskussion er foretaget et udpluk fra deres seneste udgivelse tilbage i 2014 hvortil de selv introducerer med følgende linier fra bogomslaget:
“In a world where ‘there is no alternative’, how do you dissent? Once upon a time, graphic designers would have made political posters and typeset manifestos. Today, protest has new strategies. Enter the internet meme. With its Darwinian survival skills and its viral potential, the meme is a way of scaling up protest. Hackers and activists have learned to unleash the destructive force of a Rick Astley video. They have let slip the Lolcats of war. Pranks have become a resistance strategy. As the rise of Beppe Grillo in Italy testifies, this may be the hour to fight nonsense with nonsense. Jokes are an open-source weapon of politics, and it is time to tap their power.”
[Tekst uddrag]
Can jokes bring down governments?, Metahaven, (2014)
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