Antonio Lopez's blog

Corporate media and hamburgers have a lot in common. They succeed because they stimulate the pleasure centers of our brains. Media makers now have to make a turn toward planetary ecology to become aware of how our forms of mediation impact living systems.  (more)

Ann Elizabeth Moore's Unmarketable challenges hipsters and artists to reconsider selling out communities to corporations. Can culture jamming survive cooptation? (more)

As the economy shrinks, Americans need to reevaluate prosperity to generate new meaning in their lives. Are we always aspiring to a utopian future rather than being grateful for what we have? (more)

If cool hunters are appropriating subcultures, than we need to reaffirm ourselves as ethical communities. If advertisers want to sell us products regardless of their social and environmental impact, perhaps we should exile them to a place where they will no longer hurt anyone. (more)

When I discovered yesterday morning that Obama had won, I wept. And wept. Is it an exaggeration to say the global village's heart is opening up?
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Over time, even the slickest propaganda cannot hide murder, torture, or illegality, especially when a global society is increasingly transparent. But we often forget that propaganda makers are susceptible to their own deceptions. (more)

Decentralized networks, smart mobs, collective intelligence, open source software, biopolitics, the emergent social Web and the integration of love percolate the New Edge, yet how do we use all these sexy, geeky, quasi-spiritual concepts to deconstruct the global empire of control and build a movement in response? Welcome to the first Reality Sandwich reading group, featuring Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. (more)

Will.i.am's video tribute to Obama is making the Internet rounds. But does it say anything of substance? (more)

Marketers want to claim the aesthetic of the "real," but their intentions don't fulfill the promise. (more)

Annie Leonard's stunning hybrid animation-lecture documents the journey of the stuff we use and throw away. (more)