We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality. (Cover story of Adbusters Issue #79, hitting the newsstands now.)

London is entombed in ice, New York submerged underwater and Paris burnt to a crisp. But the artists remain silent.

When marketers convince us to follow their trends, the difference between humans and insects gets a little blurrier.