Adbusters Magazine September-October 2008 Retour à l'édition précédente

Hipster: The Dead End of Civilization
We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures; it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality; and is leaving a generation pointlessly obsessing over fashion; faux individuality; cultural capital and the commodities of style.

A Bill of Rights for Future Generations
We; the people of the future; like the multitudes who came before us; have the right to air that smells sweet; to water that tastes pure; and to land that is fertile; unsoiled and green.

The Temple of Heaven
Almost all visitors to Beijing make the pilgrimage to the Temple of Heaven; whose lantern-like profile rises like a spectre over the Chinese capital; offering its citizens an iconic glimpse of the afterlife.

Bolton Dodges War Crimes
They started a war with doctored evidence and without United Nations consent. They tortured prisoners; paraded them around naked and subjected them to waterboarding. They held suspects in prisons for years without ever charging them...