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Politics of the Image

“My father taught me very firmly indeed; you do not follow the crowd. You decide what to do yourself; if necessary you lead the crowd, but you never just follow”.

Shephard Fairey - Hope (2008)

• Oh Dearism • The Century of the Self

Robert Rauschenberg - Retroactive 1 (1963)

Detournement

• Sabo

• Image is nothing

• The Revolution will not be televised

• Television Liberation

Further reading • Guy Debord – Society of the Spectacle • George Orwell – Politics and the English Language • Marshall Mcluhan – The Medium is the Message • Peter Oborne – The Triumph of the Political Class • Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton • Fractured Times by Eric Hobsbawm • Neil Postman – Amusing ourselves to death Google this: • Adam Curtis – Oh dearism • The Century of the Self • John Berger – Ways of Seeing • Sabo