I chose to mess with the images from Revolutionary Self-Theory. While I read over the pages, I got the impression that this was a prototypically earnest guide to revolutionary theory of the late 60's and early 70's when there was a bigger place in pop culture for Marxist theory. Reading over the pages, there is a lot of valuable information to be gotten, but it seems so dated and irrelevant to today's culture, which has a more apathetic and cynical climate. I feel that today, the 'revolution' usually only exists through taking images found in pop culture and twisting it in new ways. Often the purpose of the manipulation is simply absurd humour, often at the expense of the figure in the photo.
In doctoring each page, I wanted to take the revolutionary content, and trivialize it with respect to today's culture of censorship, spectacle (especially in relationship to the celebrity phenomenon), and the unprecedented scale of global corporations. To do so, I (poorly) superimposed various images from pop culture, or added logos to revolutionary lines from the text, or took out critical lines of text to produce totally contrary meanings and produced the following images (maybe they speak for themselves?):
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