Overview
Urban living involves a daily onslaught of advertisements, corporate art, and mass-mediated popular culture. As oppressive and alienating as this spectacle may be, its very ubiquity offers plentiful opportunities for semiotic jiu-jitsu and creative disruption. Subversive and marginalized ideas can spread contagiously by reappropriating artifacts drawn from popular media and injecting them with radical connotations. This technique is known as d tournement. Popularized by Guy Debord and the Situationists, the term is borrowed from French and roughly translates to "overturning" or "derailment." D tournement appropriates and alters an existing media artifact, one that the intended audience is already familiar with, in order to give it a new, subversive meaning.
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- ISBN-13: 9781913144074
- ISBN-10: 1913144070
- Publisher: Penniless Press Publications
- Publish Date: July 2019
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.57 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.84 pounds
- Page Count: 270
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