http://www.metafilter.com/tags/yomango Posts tagged with 'yomango' at MetaFilter. Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:30:31 -0800 Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:30:31 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/43879/They%2Ddance%2Dand%2Deat%2Das%2Dthey%2Dsteal <a href="http://sindominio.net/lasagencias/yomango/en/index.php">They</a> dance and eat as <a href="http://www.sindominio.net/lasagencias/gallery/prensa">they steal</a>. <a href="http://sindominio.net/lasagencias/yomango/en/index.php" title="The word is from 'I steal,' conjugated from the Spanish slang _mangar_ 'to steal; to shoplift,' from the verbing of the noun _manga_ 'sleeve.' It also plays on the European clothing brand Mango.">Yomango</a>, a counter-but-consumerist-culture of shoplifting, <a href="http://www.sindominio.net/fiambrera/sccpp/index.htm">surfaced</a> July 2002 in Spain. It's shoplifting as a movement—taught in <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/605966.html">workshops</a>, choreographed, organized as missions, and executed with prankish gusto on three continents. Why? One, it's civil disobedience that believes stealing to stay alive should be permitted. Two, it <a href="http://www.elpais.es/articulo/elpepiautmad/20031118elpmad_5/Tes/El%20arte%20de%20la%20protesta" title="According to El Pa&#0237;s, 'Yomango accuses commerce of appropriating ideas, ways of life, fashion (spied by the cool-hunters), and the sexuality already invented by society, in order to resell them as new luxury products. They believe that to steal is nothing more than reclaiming what belongs to us.'">takes back</a> what once belonged to everyone. Three, there's humor in it, even with the communistic undertones and its little <a href="http://perso.wanadoo.es/tornasol2/librorojo/librorojo.htm">red book</a>. Discussion: <a href="http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/yomango/">Dark Matter, Las Agencias, and the Aesthetics of Tactical Embarrassment</a>. <a href="http://www.unia.es/arteypensamiento03/ezine02/ezine06/sept03.html">A Poliedric Debate On Collabora Art</a>. <a href="http://www.rollingstone.es/asuntos/46.html">&#0191;Lo quieres?&#0191;Lo tienes?</a> (Spanish). More about Yomango: <a href="http://yomango.sakeos.net//modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=475">Ten Style Tips for a Yomango Life</a>. A <a href="http://www.sindominio.net/lasagencias/gallery/albums.php">gallery</a> of promos, news, and event photos. <a href="http://www.ngvision.org/mediabase/251">Yomango fashion show</a>. <a href="http://www.ngvision.org/mediabase/278">Yomango tango</a>. <a href="http://hubproject.org/news/2003/12/424.php">Yomango dinner</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.43879 Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:30:31 -0800 shoplifting stealing theft yomango Mo Nickels