1. Autonomous Media
   Activating Resistance & Dissent
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
2. On Wielding the Subversive Scalpel
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1970
   In subversion, we leave behind the interminable argument between the good bureaucrats & the bad ones. By subversion we do not mean, as in its common usage, #overthrowing the government# & replacing it with ourselves. We mean undermining the very addiction, the sick, junkie-like need, to govern or be governed at all. In the end / in the beginning, there are no leaders, no followers: there are only actors.
   
3. Rebel Sell
   Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2004
   Released in the U.S. under the title Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, the book is a critique of the underlying theory of counterculture Heath and Potter note that the capitalist system thrives not on conformity -- as so many 'culture jammers' believe -- but rather on individualism and a quest for distinction.
4. The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1967
   Our task is to link up the theoretical critique of modern society with the critique of it in acts. By detourning the very propositions of the spectacle, we can directly reveal the implications of present and future revolts.
   
5. A User's Guide to Détournement
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1956
   Détournement means deflection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose.
   

Experts on Culture Jamming in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library