Toni Morrison Turning in her Grave
Posted by Ambrose Mnemopolous
Human Obsolescence
Old Navy Aerobix Victims.
Comprising a long-running series, these advertisements depict consumers of the advertised clothing brand as lifeless mannequins — or maybe ventriloquist dummies. Decorated with brand-name images of historical pop stars, this particular ad culturefucks an intergenerational youth-cult theme by subversively depicting the heroes of the rockstar mannequins as mannequins also. Different figures exhibit various classic iconographic hand gestures throughout (such as members of a crowd holding Bic lighters in the air at a rock show).
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Machine and Inventornator.
Progress means that we exist to invent. Also, new inventions are better, and as long as the future brings us new inventions the future means everything is better. We are unique among the animals because we can plan for the future, and we are best off planning for the best possible future. In the future, our planning will bring us technology that does much of what we do better than we can do it ourselves. ”Microsoft gives me the family nature never could.”
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Google Will Make You a Robot in 13 Easy Steps.
During a boardroom meeting, a young, hip, executive meatbag’s telephone transforms him into a machine. Given the genealogy (or demonology) of the public relations industry and the freudian characteristics of technological prosthetics, the emphasis on this particular Brand of efficiency facilitated by connectivity is perhaps not incidental to the iconology of the advertisement. Agents swarm the cloud. ”Whose brain are yours today?” Google have been secretly working on an automobile that drives itself through traffic. Progress is when the car decides where to drive.
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An ad for a psychiatric medication that depicts the patient as a mechanical wind-up doll.
This same visual metaphor has appeared in other ads for the same pill. The first third of the spot is about the symptoms this psychotropic drug is meant to treat. The second two-thirds are about how this advanced pill can make you into a robot even if science doesn’t really know how, and what side-effects you might expect from ingesting this substance regularly. The visual subtext says: you will feel better when you stop being a robot and start treating life like the Game modern sociologists say it is. Ask your HMO for a list of licensed drug dealers in your family-friendly neighborhood.
Posted by Zorensen Leverthal
Has Disney Always Been This Creepy?
The same machine that made Britney Spears made Miley Cyrus. When mass media present famous underage girls in a sexual context, it’s commerce; when teenage girls take nude photos of themselves, it’s child pornography. The same mass media that is complicit in this form of human exploitation was also complicit in the housing bubble, the Iraq War, and the tech bubble. Advertising is an odd industry: there are huge profits, but almost no capital; advertising firms don’t (literally) own printing presses, newspapers, television stations, retail outlets, or the like. They do however own lots of catchy phrases and stylized images…
Posted by Zorensen Leverthal
Human Animal or Object
Brand your self. Market your skills. Act like a statistic and see your self as an object.
Posted by Ambrose Mnemopolous
Stupid Internet Advertising Pet Tricks
German engineering wants your babies. So do banks. Pay in Monopoly Money.
Posted by Zorensen Leverthal
One Billion Hindus Can’t Be Wrong
According to The Media Monopoly, the best means by which to procure vegetables and leafy greens is to visit your local McDonald’s today.
Posted by Ambrose Mnemopolous
Marketing Politics
I made my fortune selling Barack Obama t-shirts. Democracy rules!
Posted by Zorensen Leverthal
Stroke Congress for Debt Relief
With the help of Islamic black magic, Congress makes debt vanish for rich scoundrel bankers. Recent college graduates screwed.
Posted by Ambrose Mnemopolous