Negativland’s No Other Possibility (1989) is a prophetic video mash-up that visualizes a future (and the future is now) in which the mis-information highway, the Universal Media Netweb, is a traffic jam of useless artifacts of consumer culture, propaganda, mind numbing sensory overload and wasted time. Two decades before the term “meme” had become ubiquitous, Negativland was poking at the contagions in the petri dish of pop culture.

Life is a sales pitch and everybody’s buying.