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No Logo

Naomi Klein's debut book is a look at the nature of branding and how it affects the economy and society.

Naomi Klein

A national bestseller,No Logotook Canadians by storm when it was published. Equal parts cultural analysis, political manifesto, mall-rat memoir and journalistic expos, it wasthe first book to uncover a betrayal of the central promises of the information age: choice, interactivity and increased freedom.No Logotakes apart our packaged and branded world and puts the pieces into clear pop-historical and economic perspective. Naomi Klein tracks the resistance and self-determination mounting in the face of our new branded world and explains why some of the most revered brands in the world are finding themselves on the wrong end of a bottle of spray paint, a computer hack, or an international anti-corporate campaign. (From Vintage Canada)

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Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules of supply and demand. Something not far from the surfaces of the public psyche is delighted to see the icons of corporate power subverted and mocked. There is, in short, a market for it. With commercialism able to overpower the traditional authority of religion, politics and schools, corporations have emerged the natural targets for all sorts of free-floating rage and rebellion. The new ethos that culture jamming taps into is go-for-the-corporate-jugular.


From No Logo by Naomi Klein 1999. Published by Penguin Canada.

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Hot Type: Naomi Klein's "No Logo"

25 years ago
Duration 18:02
Canadian corporate muckracker Naomi Klein promotes her influential debut book No Logo.

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