Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
“If you want to defeat a god or an ideal, go for the joints.”
-Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World
Across mythological traditions, the trickster exists to outwit the devouring forces of the world, redistribute power, and catalyze more lifegiving worlds. A shapeshifter and thief, trickster wields mischief against muscle to dissolve the status quo and make the conditions of life pliable again.
CULTURE JAMMING is the modern trickster’s modus operandi. By intercepting the codes of dominant culture through subvertising, infiltration, mimicry, and satire, culture jammers wield the trickster's ancient mischief to deflate corporate power at the interfaces where it attempts to shape public perception — and where the attention economy thrives on the invisibility of its machinery.When the game is rigged, trickster changes the rules.
In this course we’ll explore what role culture jamming can play in liberating attention from the extractive grasp of the attention economy’s profiteers, and in holding them accountable. How does the trickster sensibility shift how and what we perceive? Drawing on the work of Lewis Hyde, Iain McGilchrist, and the history of culture jamming from Romantic Era revolutionaries through the Luddite Club and the Yes Men, we’ll develop a practical and imaginative toolkit for intervention and collective attentional liberation.
Led by Molly Gore, filmmaker, activist, and core member of prankster collective The Yes Men.
Thursdays, 6:30-9:00pm
July 16th-30th
Our courses cost $250, with an Advanced rate for students with an income above 100k. We also offer a Discounted rate for students with constraining circumstances.
Please see our Refund Policy HERE.
Additionally, we offer three tuition-waiver scholarships per course. To apply for a scholarship, click HERE.
Photo Credit: Bess Adler
“If you want to defeat a god or an ideal, go for the joints.”
-Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World
Across mythological traditions, the trickster exists to outwit the devouring forces of the world, redistribute power, and catalyze more lifegiving worlds. A shapeshifter and thief, trickster wields mischief against muscle to dissolve the status quo and make the conditions of life pliable again.
CULTURE JAMMING is the modern trickster’s modus operandi. By intercepting the codes of dominant culture through subvertising, infiltration, mimicry, and satire, culture jammers wield the trickster's ancient mischief to deflate corporate power at the interfaces where it attempts to shape public perception — and where the attention economy thrives on the invisibility of its machinery.When the game is rigged, trickster changes the rules.
In this course we’ll explore what role culture jamming can play in liberating attention from the extractive grasp of the attention economy’s profiteers, and in holding them accountable. How does the trickster sensibility shift how and what we perceive? Drawing on the work of Lewis Hyde, Iain McGilchrist, and the history of culture jamming from Romantic Era revolutionaries through the Luddite Club and the Yes Men, we’ll develop a practical and imaginative toolkit for intervention and collective attentional liberation.
Led by Molly Gore, filmmaker, activist, and core member of prankster collective The Yes Men.
Thursdays, 6:30-9:00pm
July 16th-30th
Our courses cost $250, with an Advanced rate for students with an income above 100k. We also offer a Discounted rate for students with constraining circumstances.
Please see our Refund Policy HERE.
Additionally, we offer three tuition-waiver scholarships per course. To apply for a scholarship, click HERE.
Photo Credit: Bess Adler