Kalle Lasn (born 1942) is the founder of Adbusters magazine and author of the book Culture Jam. He is the CEO of the Blackspot Anticorporation. Lasn was born in Tallinn, Estonia. Before founding the Adbusters Media Foundation, Lasn produced a number of documentaries and commercials including one a 30-second television ad about the disappearing old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. None of the commercial TV stations sold Lasn airtime. This incident led Lasn to found Adbusters Media Foundation, Adbusters magazine and Powershift Advertising Agency to fight for the right of access to the public airwaves. He also wrote a book titled Culture Jam, where he lists the facts about big business and the "meme" war; a war of subconscious writing of brand names to control the mass media. It contains humorous, yet dark images of modern society and an interesting insight to the way our culture has been "made." Lasn currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Quotes

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"Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for non-smoking areas ten years ago."

"The aggregate level of American life fulfillment peaked in 1957, and with a couple of brief exceptions, it's been downhill from there"

External links

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• Kalle Lasn's Biography

1942 births | Media theorists | Canadian political writers | Canadian magazine editors | Living people | Natives of Tallinn