Linkpile

• The iPad Luddites: “Progress may, for a time, intersect with one’s own personal ideology, and during that period one will become a gung-ho technological progressivist. But that’s just coincidence. In the end, progress doesn’t care about ideology. Those who think of themselves as great fans of progress, of technology’s inexorable march forward, will change their tune as soon as progress destroys something they care deeply about.”
• Cildo Meireles’s Coca-Cola Project: “Meireles removed Coca-Cola bottles from normal circulation and modified them by adding critical political statements, or instructions for turning the bottle into a Molotov cocktail*, before returning them to the circuit of exchange.”
• Branding Deals Come Early in the Filmmaking Process – NYTimes.com: Now, having Campbell’s Soup or Chrysler associated with your project can be nearly as important to your pitch as signing Tom Cruise.
• 200 Examples of anti-Obama merchandise: During health care debate, 2008-2010. Via Coudal.

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