The Yes Men: How to Hack Corporate Culture Tips from the culture jamming masters.
yes-man (noun, plural -men): someone who agrees with everything the boss says, even if it’s demented, cruel, absurd, or just stupid. The Yes Men: A group of people who target bosses they don’t work for, then agree so hard with their targets that their audiences should sit up and take notice … We call ourselves the Yes Men, and our goal is to fix the world. We even have a new film, coming out in theaters on October 22, that we’ve called The Yes Men Fix the World. We’ll give away the ending: we don’t actually make everything better. And worse, we’re now spending so much time on the distribution of this damn film that we don’t even have time to do our own silly antics anymore. So: please do it for us. Steal our secrets. What we do—and what you can do too—is impersonate captains of industry, infiltrate corporate events, give absurd and revealing presentations, and then escape to tell the story in the press, hopefully to the great embarrassment of the target. You don’t have to be a James Bond for this. You can be a bad actor, clumsy, absent minded, and even have stage fright. But what you might need a fake email address and a business card. For example, if you’re representing Exxon as Luella Arschenfleck, buy a domain like exxon-corporate.com and use an address like [email protected]. (Note: a company like Go Daddy might cancel your domain name just because it contains a well-known corporate name, so you might want to use an off-beat, less stockholder-oriented domain name company.) More at GOOD http://www.good.is/post/the-yes-men-how-to-hack-corporate-culture/ -- Olga P Massanet ·························· www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
