I’ve loaded excerpts from
John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing”,
Jacques Ellul’s “The Technological Society”
and Gary Panter’s very original “Rozztox Manifesto”
to stimulate some thinking about advertising and its effects on modern culture. The use of the techniques of propaganda to sell products, ideas, and ways of life, we’ve allowed ourselves to be manipulated by forces we no longer understand or have control of. These techniques in modern advertising have only been developed in the last 75 years so are really quite a new phenomenon.
See the post Jaron Lanier on Poisoning
“Item 4: We say enough to the instigators of game show design for we are sick and dizzy. Show us the backs of these monstrous facades, for even bare plywood is a healthier texture. Oh you seekers of the new who run terrified from history into the clutches of an eternal life where no electric shaver can be built to last.” Rozztox Manifesto