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AB 167: Twilight in America / China's Slave State
America is all dressed up with nowhere to go — exporting a virus of individuality more deadly than Covid to the rest of the world. All the revolutionaries are burned out — every moment of time monetized.
Meanwhile, in China, we watch the steady, methodical rise of a 21st century Hitler. World leaders flock to China just like they flocked to Germany 80 years ago.
Can we leap over both of them, and forge a third path through the perilous years ahead?
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AB 166: POP! Goes the Old World Order
Is this the final chapter in the human story? Are we too exhausted to do more than bingewatch and doomscroll?
OK, but like it or not, you still have a choice: Throw in the towel and keep sipping lattes . . . or screw up your courage and go down swinging . . . do something.
Issue 166 asks what it means to be alive today, and how we can conjure up a new vibe, a new dream — a new bottom-up way of thinking so dangerous and beautiful that it opens up all the possibilities for governing ourselves in the future.
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AB 165: The Good Bad issue
For the first issue of the new year, we're transitioning into a stunningly large magazine format — something reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s Interview.
The issue will have a poetically profound good side and a ferociously angry bad side, with an almighty clash of humanity's two alternate futures in the middle.
PhD student or teenage street fighter, this issue will transfix you — turn you into a fired-up player of the planetary endgame.
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AB 164: The Big Ideas of 2023
The question’s as blunt as the times are dire. Are we winning or losing the planetary endgame?
In our year-end issue we argue both sides, with our most optimistic, bright-eyed inclinations colliding in the middle with our bleakest and grimmest intuitions.
It’s a stitching-together of two warring tendencies. Truth is, neither one is sufficient for our salvation: to win the endgame, we desperately need both.
To stave off extinction, we’re going to have to muster both the courage to face the harshest truths about our reality and the guts to imagine a radically different one — and then see it through.
So summon all the chutzpah you can muster. It’s going to be the match of the millennium.
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AB 163: The Aesthetic Class issue
This issue of Adbusters is the first of its kind to be published by any magazine in history.
Flesh-and-blood editors gave A.I. image- and text-generators prompts like “ode to the goddess of the metaverse” and “suicide note from the last human being” and “notes from the singularity.” Half of this issue is made up of what popped out the other side of the black box.
The other half is the polar opposite: rough and ragged, like the humans who wrote and painted and photographed and got their meaty thumbs all over everything in it.
The two halves meet in the middle in an almighty clash of ideas — a clash that will shape this century and the next.
It’s a weird, wild, history-making issue. And if we may say so, one of our best yet.
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AB 162: The Woobbly issue
The post-truth era — the culmination of centuries of soulless hyperlogic — has, on the one hand, brought upon us total political breakdown. On the other, widespread psychological decay.
And so the choice before us is stark. Either the suicidal straight-line mode of thinking prevails — or we come up with a wobbly new sensibility for the 21st century. Either we witness the rebirth of wonder — or we succumb to the politics of hate.
To steer clear of our doom we must give birth to brazen new forms, dream up bold new ideas, unleash wild new possibilities. Anything less means getting crushed beneath the weight of the old — everything that has brought us to this do-or-die moment, when humanity teeters on the edge of extinction.
So, whaddya say: Are you ready to have a paradigm-shifting epiphany?
After all, there’s only one alternative to a thousand-year dark age.
It’s called world revolution.
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AB 161: The Nope/Hope issue
The planetary endgame is upon us. Hope rests with adopting a handful of potent metamemes — ideas so fundamental, so profound that a sane sustainable future is unthinkable without them.
But if we can’t manage to hatch a grand new narrative for humankind, we’ll be travelling down the highway to hell — moving inexorably toward a long dark age from which we may never recover.
We’re getting a taste of this right now. The erosion of truth, the breakdown of democracy, the wearing down of sanity, the spread of might-is-right despotism and cruelty — all foregrounded by an ecological collapse of existential proportions.
The rumblings of optimism, on the other hand, are few. But they are mighty. If we’re going to have a shot at staving off the worst, it’s up to us to heed them.
In this explosive dark-vs-light issue we lay out twin visions of what’s to come. Will we get our shit together and act with urgency — or run this experiment of ours on Planet Earth permanently aground?
Jump on board, comrade. It’s an all-hands-on-deck kind of moment.
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AB 160: The Plus/Minus issue
Is there any hope left for humanity?
Can we think the unthinkable, do the undoable — get our shit together, win independence from fossil fuels, establish a Digital Bill of Rights, launch Democracy 2.0?
Or are we doomed?
In this urgent edition of Adbusters, we tackle the question of how great nations, organizations, movements, ideas, and historical eras live and thrive — and how they fizzle out and die.
Whether as a triumphant fanfare or as a swansong for our species, this is the hour to let go of all your pretensions and play jazz.
What’s your riff?
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AB 159: Gen Z - Heroes or Zeroes?
You know it’s happening. I know it’s happening. So why do we go on letting it?
Despite the mounting urgency of multiple species-level crises, the old guard — from Boomers to Millenials — has completely, shamefully, perilously dropped the ball.
Like it or not, Gen Z is our last best hope. But can they muster the gumption to face the facts in the age of the Big Lie?
In other words, are the kids alright — or are they a little too much like us?
In this issue, we get into the existential dimensions of this question and lay out the stakes for today’s anxiety-ridden anklebiters.
After all, it’s only the whole of humanity that’s on the line.
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AB 158: A New Structure of Feeling
Nobody quite knows why our Western egos are so big.
Maybe it’s got something to do with the fact that, more than many other cultures, we live inside our heads. And when you live inside your head, then it’s basically all about you, you, you.
Narcissism, ego, and hyper-individuality are gnawing away inside us. In their outward forms and manifestations they’re clogging the sky and tainting the water, making the planet unlivable. To survive this century of crisis, we have to come up with a new tone, a new ambiance, a new sensuality. A new structure of feeling.
Can we learn to live suddenly without thinking?
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AB 157: Ultimatum to World Leaders
Covid-19 turned from an outbreak into a pandemic because of airplanes.
The virus shot around the world, instantly found new hosts, and replicated everywhere all at once. It was out of Pandora’s box before anyone could make a lid big enough to shut it down.
Speculative money has spread the virus of capitalism the same way. The throughput is out of control — because there are no borders or governors or effective laws to stop the money-from-nothing algorithm.
The speculative traders are like superspreaders, and the whole world is vulnerable.
Our only hope is to shut those guys down.
In this issue, we take a crack at flattening the speculative-money curve. If we can achieve this, then things for all of us all around the world will slowly get better — until eventually we reach financial herd immunity.
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Sep/Oct 2009
Natural capital: Why are we selling it off and calling it income?
Overshoot: What is the cost of a dying planet?
Progress: Does anyone know if we’re moving forwards or backwards?
True Cost: Why aren’t the prices of products telling the ecological truth?
Happiness: What does it have to do with our curriculums?
When the Going Gets Tough: Post-meltdown, economists unleash a deafening silence.
Flawed Foundations: Neoclassical ideology is built on an obsolete science.
Confessions of a Radical Economics Prof: Students are baffled when Julie Matthaei advances radical debate in her classroom.
Econophysics: Today’s globalized economy can learn a few lessons from modern physics.
Can Economists Improve the Human Condition? Neoclassical ideology is wholly indifferent to the complexity of life.
Whirlpools and Turbulent Flows: Economics can no longer deny chaos theory or the interconnectedness of nature.
Renegade thinkers like Frederick Soddy, Paul Samuelson, Lourdes Benería, George Akerlof, Joseph Stiglitz, Herman Daly and Evo Morales are some of the inspiring people who are catalyzing a monumental mind shift in economics.
At critical times throughout history, university students have sparked massive protests, calling their leaders on their lies and steering their nations in brave new directions. Learn some of the ways you can help bring down neoclassical economics.
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AB 156: Battle for the Soul of Economics
The rich pay no taxes. Foreign tax havens continue to thrive. Flash trading algorithms whirr away, turning stock markets into cash cows for the rich.
Money begets money begets money. And in the wake of Covid we’re being told to go out and consume again. But what about climate change? Does anyone have a solution for that?
Yet something is stirring. The banked fires of previous stifled revolutions never went out.
And now they have found a new fuel.
In this issue, we lay out a plan to crack the fatal neoclassical consensus, reinvigorating the wayward “science” of economics with the revolutionary fire needed to stave off a long dark age.
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AB 155: A New Relationship Between People and Corporations
We the People have lost control.
Corporations, these legal fictions we ourselves created two centuries ago, now rule over us. And we accept this as the normal state of affairs.
We go to corporations on our knees. Please do the right thing, we plead. Please don’t cut down any more ancient forests. Please don’t pollute any more lakes and rivers (but please don’t move your factories and jobs offshore either). Please don’t use pornographic images to sell fashion to my kids. Please don’t play governments off against each other to get a better deal.
We’ve spent so much time bowed down in deference we’ve forgotten how to stand up straight.
In this issue, we lay out a plan to take back our sovereignty, restore our dignity . . . and make corporations work for us, not the other way around. It's an endgame that we can't afford to lose.
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AB 154: Fake Planet
On the back cover of the first issue of Adbusters, published back in 1989, was a stern-looking Planet Earth pointing an accusing finger: I WANT YOU TO CURB YOUR CONSUMPTION.
The world was in a phase change. The Berlin Wall was about to fall. Solidarity was in the air, and the environmental movement was driving it. We’d seen the whole Earth from space and by God it looked vulnerable, hanging out there in the darkness.
Environmentalism wasn’t some kind of consensus we all arrived at: it was an existential reaction that prompted a million gut-level responses.
But let’s face it: fifty years of environmental activism has added up to little more than a rounding error on the climate emergency.
Now we need to go deep-down, system-wide, third-order.
So, in this issue we sink our teeth into the problem of climate change and shake loose one mighty idea — the mother of all metamemes — that’ll show the world a way out of the existential fix we’re in.
Don’t believe us? Read on . . .
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AB 153: The New Left
Let’s get into something personal right off the hop. Let's talk about resistance.
Resistance is what people feel when they just can’t face what needs to be done. Something important is right in front of them, but it’s so hairy, so scary in its implications on their life, their cozy way of keeping on keeping on, that they can’t deal with it.
Resistance grips us when our very soul recognizes just how much is on the line. Like right now.
Caught in an existential crisis with no obvious way out, we begin to question the hidden coordinates of our reality and start thinking about a new operating system for Planet Earth. We hatch a new grand narrative, a set of ideas so fundamental, so systemic, so profound that a sane sustainable future is unthinkable without them.
And then we deploy them.
In this 200-page mindbomb, we unleash a movement that operates completely outside of geographic borders and political structures — the Third Force — to revitalize the forces of resistance and point the way to a future that computes.
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AB 152: The Big Ideas of 2025
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Total surveillance. Vicious inequality. Worldwide contagion. Ecocide. We're trapped in a planetary death-spiral. To stave off a new dark age and forge a future that computes, we the people will have to come up with a new kind of bottom-up politics — new ways to live, love and think. How can we get humanity back on track? We've got a few ideas . . .
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Will the coronavirus spell the end of meat? Cash? The movie theatre? The shopping mall? The classroom? The business trip? The office? The handshake? The hug? Neoliberalism? Globalization? Hyper-individualism? Romance? Your career?
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The greatest trick technology companies ever played was persuading society to surveil itself. These corporations know everything you do, every move you make, every post you share, every “friend” you make. Your every click and scroll is recorded, then used to encourage any behavior, from shopping habits to voting patterns. This situation is comparable to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World — except this is a more extreme version.
We didn't sign up for this. Did you?
Now, before it's too late, we have to act. In the face of rampant techno-tyranny, we must openly mount a resistance ...
... and unleash a force to liberate us from the chains of technocracy gone totalitarian: the Mental Liberation Front.
Digital citizens of the world! Join the fight against the scourge of surveillance capitalism. Crack open its secret code — and take back your mental space by force.
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If you want to fix democracy, make secrecy taboo.
If you want to stop the media mindfuck, impose a psychic tax.
If you want to rein in the power of corporations, kill the corporate “I”.
If you want to fix the economy, pull off a paradigm shift in the science of economics.
If you want to halt global warming, make the price of products tell the ecological truth.
And if you want to stop our spiral into a long dark age, then admit that straight lines are godless and immoral.
There's only one way out of the existential fix we're in. In this issue, we unleash a force to crack the global mind.
Welcome to the Mental Liberation Front.
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How do we want democracy in the 21st century to look? What does it look like now? How will we achieve this renewing vision?