Duncan and Terri talk to Anne Elizabeth
Moore about her book Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the
Erosion of Integrity and related topics.

For years the do-it-yourself (DIY)/punk
underground has worked against the logic of mass production and creative
uniformity, disseminating radical ideas and directly making and trading goods
and services. But what happens when the underground becomes just another
market? What happens when the very tools that the artists and activists have
used to build word of mouth are coopted by corporate America?
What happens to cultural resistance when it becomes just another marketing
platform?


Unmarketable examines the corrosive effects of corporate
infiltration of the underground. Activist and author Anne Elizabeth Moore takes
a critical look at the savvy advertising agencies, corporate marketing teams,
and branding experts who use DIY techniques to reach a youth market—and at
members of the underground who have helped forward corporate agendas through
their own artistic, and occasionally activist, projects.


Covering everything from Adbusters to
Tylenol’s indie-star-studded Ouch! campaign, Unmarketable is a lively,
funny, and much-needed look at what’s happening to the underground and what it
means for activism, commerce, and integrity in a world dominated by
corporations.

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the co-editor of Punk Planet,
the Best American Comics series editor, and the author of Hey
Kidz! Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda
and Artistic Activism for Short People. She has written for Bitch,
the Chicago Reader, In These Times, The Onion, The
Progressive, and Chicago Public Radio WBEZ’s radio program 848.
She lives in Chicago.


I will mail 5 bucks to the first person who
can identify the name of the artist and title of the song used to close the
show, it has bothered me for years that I don’t know who it is.