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SEIZE THE IMAGE

// it is a social relation mediated by images

01

Every advertisement is a battlefield

The billboard sells nothing but compliance. We insert new words and the meaning flips overnight.

02

Collage is not decoration — it is theft

We cut what capital built and paste it into the service of organized refusal.

03

The comic strip outperforms the manifesto

A speech bubble over a cartoon face explains dialectics faster than any university lecture.

04

Reproduction multiplies the attack

One photocopy is a pamphlet. Ten thousand printed overnight is a general strike in paper form.

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