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PhotographyIt has become more and more popular in the last years to take something someone else has made, and re-use it somehow. Some people consider this art (I won’t go into this discussion here). Some people call it remixing.
You’ll find the remix-generator I’m talking about in this entry here.
The first remix-contest of Netzpolitik.org took place in August, and had far over 1.000 submissions. People were asked to make a better use of the following Schäuble campaign poster:
The second contest was recently started, remixing posters of our most beloved minister von der Leyen.
My favourites: yes we scan and yes we ban. Feel free to spread the word, or do whatever you guys usually do with remixed posters of the CDU/CSU.
September 6th, 2009
September 18th, 2009 at 18:07
Dependent on ones gusto one might find remixing a funny thing to do – showing the remixers good or whatever sense of humor and wit.
Unattached from that, altering politial slogans on public bills or other media during election campaigns is a sad and poor thing to do. It might be some kind of guerillia method to fight opposing political opinions, but it has nothing to do with a decent way of settling political diffenrences of opinion.
Ridiculizing ones opponent in a discussion aggravates any kind of consensus. And as far as i see it, democracy is all about consensus.
September 18th, 2009 at 18:24
(1) I did object to some posters – e.g. making fun of Schäuble because he is in a wheelchair. But if you read the thread carefully, netzpolitik.org wrote that they only want “fair” posters, and they didn’t put mean posters in the selection.
And these remixed posters are – in my opinion – nothing in comparison what parties did the last years to harm the reputation of other parties (http://bit.ly/Ggyl8 – this is just something I found today, we’ve all seen the anti-campaigning).
(2)
* The leading German party CDU recently blocked changing our election system which has been declared anti-constitutional by the German constitutional court – because the bigger the party, the higher the exploit of this system (“Überhang Mandate”).
* The leading German party CDU suggested over 10 anticonstitutional bills during the last 4 years.
* The leading German party CDU suggested today (http://bit.ly/oBW0h) to stop the parliamentarian control of German intelligence forces.
* The leading German party CDU has a premier minister called Rüttgers, who openly said that Rumanian workers are in generael very lazy and have no idea what they are doing.
I can do this all day.
Therefor I can’t agree on what you say about concensus, although I probably would have agreed a few years ago. Things have changed for me.
Democracy is about diversity.
(3) I completely agree that one shouldn’t interfere in official posters – in general. But there are quite some problems arising.
(A) The CDU gets most tax-payer money for posters, because they received the most votes 4 years ago. I’m not sure if I find this fair – this promotes big parties and gives them advantages in PR which they should not have.
(B) Campaigning in general … I find it difficult. 95% of the posters are not transporting politics, slogans, ideas – it’s just a picture with a person, a name and a party. They should cut this money and put it into eduction.