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monochrom: we mean it. (Disclaimer: Even those who don’t believe the hype need media to communicate that they don’t believe the hype.) Link

One more piece from our archives. Link

Johannes Grenzfurthner will give a talk at SIGINT 2010: “GUERRILLA.COM: How to mess with media, the market and life itself”. “The term guerrilla communication refers to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes … Read more

Johannes Grenzfurthner will give a talk at SIGINT 2010: “Reach Out and Touch Face: A rant about failing”. Science and Technology Studies (especially Langdon Winner and Bruno Latour) have convincingly demonstrated that the widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only … Read more

Frank Apunkt Schneider will give a talk at SIGINT 2010: “The Medium is the Messiah. On the implicit ideology of media activism” In the media age nearly all forms of political interventionism show an inevitable tendency to become media activism. This is to say that the activists’ focus has shifted from what could be considered … Read more

monochrom presents the third part of a lecture series by Johannes Grenzfurthner. As it emerged in the 90s, the concept “communication guerilla” was, not least of all, a response to the exhaustion of traditional leftist activism after the fall of the Berlin wall. The search for new forms of praxis led (at least in some … Read more

One of our monochrom classics from 2007, featuring Bre Pettis. Link

monochrom presents the second part of a lecture series by Johannes Grenzfurthner. The terms guerrilla communication (and communication guerrilla) refer to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning … Read more