224 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 x 18 cm
Contents
1. Advertisements for Utopia -- The boredom of plenty -- Inside the blue whale -- Prozac for the ear -- The medium of emergent desire -- In every dream home -- Alternative by design? -- Branded journalism -- Sentenced to buy -- Here is me! -- Don't think, shoot -- An artist's rights -- Ineffable cool -- Blank look -- Shopping on planet irony -- Digital supergirls -- Graphic sex -- Erotic documents -- Death in the image world -- Che is risen -- Under the knife -- 2. The Resistance Meme -- Too much stuff -- Design is advertising -- First things first -- First things next -- Thirteen provocations -- Surface wreckage -- This is record cover -- Fighting ads with ads -- A child's fate? -- Preparing for the meme wars -- The designer as reporter -- Books of blood and laughter -- The critical path -- When objects dream -- Power to translate -- Future imperfect
