Kalle Lasn was born on March 24,1942 and is an Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor, and activist.
10 Facts About Kalle Lasn
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Kalle Lasn is the co-founder of Adbusters magazine and author of the books Culture Jam and Design Anarchy and is the co-founder of the Adbusters Media Foundation, which owns the magazine.
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Kalle Lasn reportedly started Adbusters after an epiphany that there was something profoundly wrong with consumerism.
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Kalle Lasn referred to this move as "absurd and unfair" because "even the most innocuous product ad is laden with unspoken and unquestioned political assumptions", adding that no line exists between product and advocacy ads, and that all ads are political.
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Kalle Lasn calls for a "meme war": a battle of ideas to shift Western society away from consumer capitalism.
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Kalle Lasn promotes the rebelling of the notion that hierarchies can dictate people's identities.
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Similar to Kalle Lasn's prior book, Design Anarchy is a "personal statement, manifesto and textbook", which takes many of the prominent advertising campaigns found in the Adbusters magazine, and reconfigures them to stop "the flow of bits of information long enough to interrupt the spectacle, to promote the jolt, to allow the process of awareness".
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Kalle Lasn challenges students to look beneath the surface of the facade to realize that economics is a "highly contested" and "questionable" field.
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Kalle Lasn made documentary films for 20 years beginning in 1970 - many of them to do with Japan, the homeland of his wife, Masako Tominaga.
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In March 2004, Lasn published an article in Adbusters pointing out that, whereas less than two percent of Americans are Jewish, 26 of the top 50 advocating war in Iraq are Jewish.