Kalle Lasn
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Kalle Lasn (* 1942 in Tallinn , Estonia ) is the founder of the Adbusters Media Foundation and CEO of Blackspot Anticorporation . Lasn shot numerous documentaries and commercials, for example about the disappearance of the rainforests in the Pacific Northwest . However, the television stations refused to broadcast his spots, which led him to found the Adbusters Media Foundation - an organization that advocates for publicly available airtime. In 1999 Lasn published the work Culture Jamming, which is critical of society and consumerism .
In 2004 Lasn published an article in "Adbusters" in which he criticized American neoconservatives , using anti-Semitic stereotypes. In the article there was a list of prominent Neocons in which the Jewish names were specially marked. When offended, Lasn denied himself to be an anti-Semite and pretended not to understand this criticism.
Works
- Culture jamming. The anti-advertising manifesto. Orange-press , Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-936086-22-2 .
- Design anarchy. Orange-press, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-936086-27-3 (with German translation booklet).
Web links
- Adbusters
- Blackspot Anticorporation
- Information about culture jamming
- The Future of Design - Lecture by Kalle Lasn at TYPO Berlin 2006
- Kölner Klopfer 2007 - Four video messages from Kalle Lasn for the award ceremony
- Kalle Lasn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
notes
- ↑ Lasn: “Why won't anyone say they are jewish?” In: Adbusters, March – April 2004; critical of this Jeff Sommer: "The war against too much of everything." In: The New York Times , December 22, 2012.
- ↑ in the book Protests. Jewish Rebellion in Jerusalem, New York and elsewhere edited by Gisela Dachs
- ↑ in the book Right and Left Populism: Approaching a Chameleon by Karin Priester
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lasn, Kalle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian documentary filmmaker and media critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tallinn |