#mc539 Week 7: Sustainability of the Alternative

The sustainability of alternative Jennifer M. Jones

http://mc539.posterous.com

Last week

!  Activism project

!  Plan, design and implement a social media campaign

!  Directed study: reflection on project

Previously...

!  Submitted manifestos (feedback due next week!)

!  Researched and proposed projects

!  need, opportunity, problem

Coming up

!  NOW: Start producing

!   NEXT: Guest workshop @citizenseye

!  By week 9: Present work to class

!  By week 11: Be ready to write up your work

SUSTAINABILITY (etc.)

Resources

Resilience

Digital Economy

Cultural Capitalism

Critique of cultural capitalism Slavoj Zizek

Sustainability as “Green-Washing”

Tar sands

VANOC Sustainability Report

Sustainability of the altenrative

Does it need to be?

Direct action (UK UNCUT)

Hashtags clicktivism?

Ephemera AS Action

Ephemera is transitory written and printed matter not intended to be retained or preserved

But what did you want to achieve?

Archive

“Anarchists on rampage”

or

Collective imaging Flickr

Documenting the alternative

Voice of one vs voice of Many

Critiquing the alternative.