After doing some research regarding Banksy I came across the website 'Brandlism,' simliar to the work of the Billboard Liberation Front the group aims to reclaim outdoor advertising space. The activist group is inspired by the work of the dadaists, surrealists, and street artists, they use a variety of methods to subvertise.
Articles on the website make a convincing argument against outdoor advertising, it asserts how we should stop viewing advertising as a form of commercial communication and rather as visual pollution. A point which I found particularly interesting was the 'long-term' consequences of repetitive expose to advertising, Prof. Sut Jhally discusses the London Riots and how they turned in to a looting spree:
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