Adbusters #80: The Freedom From Want

Adbusters #80 NOV/DEC 2008

The Freedom From Want

Freedom From Want

Dame-Ren (No Good People)

As Japan embraced Western-style capitalism, it, in turn, started suffocating the Japanese. The corporation eclipsed every community in Japanese life, providing living spaces, arranging marriages and social engagements, and, most importantly, promising full-time jobs that would last a lifetime.

Enter Jamspace

Described as the dance of natural philosophy, Contact Improvisation, explores spontaneous movement by taking a point of contact with another body as its starting point for exploration through physical movement.

Cultivate Mindfulness

It might not be a typical classroom scene yet, but over the last four years mindfulness training has been introduced to classrooms in California, Pennsylvania, and British Columbia with marked success.

I Wanted to Paint Nothing

No matter what he actually saw in the soup cans, by elevating them to the level of art, Warhol managed to encapsulate the increasing emptiness of modern existence.

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Selected articles from the print edition of Adbusters Magazine.

Article

Dame-Ren (No Good People)

A glimpse into Japan's embrace of Western-style capitalism.

Excerpt

Planetary Endgame

Three trends bode ill for our future: the increase in weather disasters, the black market in organs and the growing demand for drinking water.

Excerpt

Where Do You Stand On Cuba?

Three vignettes from Adbusters Issue 80 capture the ambiguities of a political experiment.

Slideshow

Urban Mining

The Zabaleen (which roughly translates as "garbage collectors") in Cairo's Moqqatam suburb are said to be the world's greatest waste recyclers.

Essay

Industrial Childbirth

"Revisiting my son's birth has made me angry."

Essay

Virtual Morality

As videogames create better, more immersive models of reality: are we free to do anything we want in a virtual world, or are some things inherently wrong?

Essay

Quit Facebook

The decision to destroy my carefully built-up virtual image came as a result of wanting to enhance my profile.

Essay

"I Wanted to Paint Nothing"

Warhol managed to encapsulate the increasing emptiness of modern existence. If you want more meaningful art, build a more meaningful world.

Commentary

Too Big To Fail?

If global capitalism is to die, it will be a death of a million stings.

Article

Enter Jamspace

Contact improvisation is more than just a dance, it's the ultimate expression of freedom and spontaneity.

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