Maskirovka!
Analyzing the rhetoric of pranks, hoaxes, trickery, deceptive strategies, mischief and psychological warfare. The art of deceit and the most controversial episodes of cunning in human history from the Trojan Horse to Luther Blissett, with a predilection for vintage, lo-tech stuff. Intended for entertainment purposes only. Send your prank stories and I'll publish them (no lame college stuff: the smarter the prank, the greater the story).
Links
- Luther Blissett Project Archives
A Multi-Use Reputation Shared by Hundreds of Pranksters and Cultural Saboteurs All Across Europe. This project reached its peak in the late 1990's. - Wu Ming Foundation
Radical Fiction from Italy since the 20th Century. Slightly more than expected from a band of novelists. These guys are cultural guerrillas, they authored the novel Q under the "Luther Blissett" moniker (1999) then updated their byline and wrote 54. - Joey Skaggs
Multimedia artist Joey Skaggs has been called everything from the World's Greatest Hoaxer to a royal pain in the ass. He's been threatened, assaulted, summoned, subpoenaed, arrested, deposed, dismissed, trivialized, maligned, even thanked and praised. - Alan Abel
Archaetypal hoaxer, the Godfather of Media Pranks. He started a career when everyone else was still in diapers, or nowhere to be found. - RTmark
®TMark is a brokerage that supports the sabotage (informative alteration) of corporate products, from dolls and children's learning tools to electronic action games, by channelling funds from investors to workers for specific projects grouped into "mutual funds." - PsyWar
A repository for the serious historical study of psychological warfare, psychological operations, information warfare, aerial propaganda leaflets, and black propaganda, from WWI to WWII, to the present day. - 0100101110101101
Franko and Eva, the mysterious couple of lovers and large-scale hoaxers. That famous sneaker firm hates their guts. They also come from the Luther Blissett Project - Guerriglia marketing (Italian)
Giving Buzz Marketing and PR Stunts a Subversive Twist. From loony Italy, where store-owners pay street thugs to loot their premises. - Persubtiliter (Italian-English)
A Vaguely Threatening Sequence of Hints and Tips for Psychological Guerrilla Warfare and Social Engineering. - Sefton Delmer
The story of how a diverse group of eccentric and bohemian characters working directly with the Allied Armed Services created a weapon of words that insidiously undermined the very fabric of the Third Reich. - WW2 Anti-Nazi Black Propaganda
A Study of Radio Propaganda against Germany in WW II. - Museum of Hoaxes
Take a look around, check out the exhibits, and try to decide if you would have fallen for any of the hoaxes. There are even some tests here for you to determine just how gullible you really are. - Sniggle.net
Trolls, Hoaxes, Culture Jamming, Poetic Terrorism, Media Hacks, Frauds, Impostors, Spoofs, Counterfeits, Fakes, Pranks, Scams, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. - Changingminds.org
A site on all aspects of how we change one another's minds. Lots of stuff! - Urban Legends
Rumors, Myths, Swindles, Misconceptions, Moral Panic... and all the other stuff that comes to you through the Net. - Slapshot. Home of the Charlestown Chiefs
What? You didn't see George Roy Hill's 1977 classic movie? Well, go and see it. It's a real cult for hockey fans, pranksters and buzz marketing guerrillas.
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