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Final Reflective Paper

The detournament image of  Aylan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian boy whose photo has echoed around the world atop the pedestal of lady liberty. Aylan was among refugees on a boat to Greece when the boat capsized killing 12 passengers. Aylan’s … Continue reading →

El Teneen is a graffiti artist who grew in popularity following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. The revolution brought a rise to the graffiti street art movement, something that was not so common in Egypt. El Teneen teamed up with Ganzeer … Continue reading →

Ricardo Dominguez grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada where he first began to sense his political consciousness. After being kicked out of school in Florida he began working in a lesbian bookstore where he learned of cocaine parties attended by … Continue reading →

In “Culture Jamming”, Mark Dery discusses “billboard banditry”, the at of defacing billboard ads with graffiti for the sake of anti-promoting. Dery mentions the agitprop collectives Artfux who accompany New York artist Ron English on a day of billboard banditry … Continue reading →

1. Acts of activism can indeed be fun when being creative with your message. When an agenda breaks the norm of day to day life it not only encourages an audience to think differently on a situation, it can also … Continue reading →

girl soldiers

1) Thomas Frank ponders on “why Johnny can’t dissent”, and Johnny being us , the us that says no to social normjis and refuse to coonform can’t dissent because “dissent” has been absorbed by American business. To rebel to go … Continue reading →

The reason Johnny can’t dissent is because “dissent” has been absorbed by American business. To rebel to go against is in the sense what’s “in” now and business’ intend to capitalize on it. American corporations encourage us to change to … Continue reading →

I started my project searching for sources on 3 completely different topics from the ones my paper is actually on. Due to difficulties finding reliable sources I abandoned my topic on the Palestinian And Jewish Unity and switched my research … Continue reading →

Media as Epistemology, a chapter from Neil Postman’s book which discusses the significance in every medium of communication and our shift over the centuries from finding truth orally to written to published to television. Zapatismo And The Global Origins OF … Continue reading →