With a rallying cry of "Wake up and give a shit" Open Source Resistance, whose striking graphics have been appearing in newspapers across the country, seems like a potentially cool new grassroots activist organization, but in actuality it's just one component in a complex marketing campaign developed as part of Nine Inch Nails new album Year Zero. Unlike other ad campaigns that co-opt activist imagery however, I don't find myself upset with this, not just because I enjoy the music of Nine Inch Nails, but because the album, which is set in a dystopian future, is actually political in nature, like most good science fiction.
OSR even staged a secret meeting where a small number of folks were taken to an undisclosed location and treated to a talking to by a revolutionary followed by a mini-NIN show, which was subsequently shut down by the "police". You can watch it all happen here.
You're also invited to join in at ArtIsResistance.com.
4 comments:
Art Is Resistance. Don't let them or anyone blind you to the truth. Together we can make a difference.
Wake up. Stand up.
They cannot stop us all.
you should be cAReful To label thIS "REbellion" as "juSt... a complex marketIng campaign". that iS not so. iT's a fair warning To seriously wAke up aNd give a shit, a warning too often dismissed as Clever markEting.
The video obviously has no police in it. The intrusion on the last few moments of the film are "produced." Police sound-off with "Police" when entering any building. Just the same they are also required to have highly visible markings which label them as "Police." Also the movement of the "police" entering the building is completely ridiculous. Police move in a more organized fashion. I am ashamed of this nonsense.
Even if it is staged - it's the principle of the matter. Events of this type are not above Uncle Sam...
They've done it before.
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