smart revlefters: Quick analysis for this thing please

[Tim Cornelis]

Quick analysis please. I've seen some revlefters analyse similar things. I remember it was articulated quite well.

So there is this company selling retro stuff, and its commercial is this:

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So something about anti-commercialism used as commercial impulse.

Analyse... go!

[Creative Destruction]

i imagine on some level it would have to do what the situationists identified as "recuperation," where ideas that are intended to challenge the system are first ridiculed and then repackaged for their "edginess" and sold to consumers.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

probably the most effective way to pacify counter-cultural movements. Much like punk as a sub-culture today is phoney and full of poseurs, despite its genuinely radical musical origins.

[consuming negativity]

i imagine on some level it would have to do what the situationists identified as "recuperation," where ideas that are intended to challenge the system are first ridiculed and then repackaged for their "edginess" and sold to consumers.

Another example since rednoise sort of cleaned up the thread already...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJlkS_jnlYY

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/janisjoplin/mercedesbenz.html

RIP Janis Joplin :crying:

She died too young.