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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.

— Naomi Klein No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999)

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Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

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