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Mystery Object #26: Anti-Seat Belt Device

February 26, 2019 by Museum Fatigue

Every strategy of control has a tactic of resistance. While going through some photos this afternoon I was reminded of this fact by a photo I took of this little ingenious device that I saw in Nanjing last year. It is an “anti-seat belt device”—a buckle-shaped slug with a cute plastic bear head that inserts into the front seatbelt buckle to fool the car’s seatbelt warning signal. I’ve seen a few of these from time-to-time, but always forget to take […]

Categories: Hacking, Mystery Objects • Tags: automobile, everyday resistance, seat belt, tactics and strategies

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Everyday Resistances: “Scrotumbank”

August 8, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

The scratchings of graffiti seem trivial and puerile on the surface but their tactical operations, often taken spontaneously on the fly with whatever writing implement might be on hand, offer an easily accessible lesson in everyday resistance. While ducking into a coffee shop across the street from the Royal Ontario Museum I caught a glimpse of this. The mind of a passerby thought of a creative way to add three letters and replace one in the name of the Scotiabank, the […]

Categories: Advertising, Play • Tags: everyday resistance, graffiti, Scotiabank, tactical operations

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