Well I just got another self-aggrandizing email from good old !Sr!n! Kumar.
Any body know that name, Srini Kumar?
For an anarchist, he's got a pretty high public profile. Certainly he's more widely known than say,
Ammond Hennesey.
Anybody know that name, Ammond Hennesey?
Utah Phillips references aside, Srini keeps on putting the hype back in hypocrisy, this time by shilling his new book of stickers that he somehow conned Disinformation into publishing. It looks like a pretty punk rock gift for Father's Day...
...if your dad thinks crypto-fascist-mass-market-graffiti-for-slackers is what Punk Rock is all about.
You can buy Sticker Nation: The Big Book of Subversive Stickers online from Atomic Books,
or you can be a good little neo-capitalist-radikal and request it at every Barnes and Noble in your town.
I used to be all up in Srini's listserv, when I was a college freshman and well on my way to a nervous breakdown. I don't blame him for providing me with some of the propaganda that fueled my downward spiral, any more than I do
Jenny Holzer.
What I do hold against him are his egoistic efforts to build a cult of personality around his sloganeering, as if provocative bon-mots are enough to feed a revolution.
Worse, The fine print on each of his stickers makes hideous what would otherwise be elegant. What kind of slogan needs fine print?
What kind of revolution is fomented by slogans that are accompanied by fine print that tells you where you can buy similar products?
