Most of the material in it has never been heard before. Negativland covets insightful wackiness from anywhere, low-tech approaches whenever possible, telling humor, and vital social targets of any kind. Without ideological preaching, Negativland often becomes a subliminal culture sampling service concerned with making art about everything we aren't supposed to notice. Negativland's particular musical practice incorporates found sounds and musical samples into their collage compositions.
History knows better.
All art is based on creative theft, always has been, and any reasonable person appreciates this as crucial to the practice. Negativland believes that collage has a well-established artistic license to appear in mass media, or anywhere else, free of charge and free of charges. And The Numeral 2. This book details the purposeless folly that often results when art and law collide. It is this which has become a special subject of interest for Negativland because of its telling view into the successful manipulation of the mass psyche, and the degree to which it exploits our common mental environment with the promotion of personal dissatisfaction and constant desire-mongering on a universal scale.