Rise, the Corporate Führer
Issue 12. Summer of 2003
A sarcastic comparison of the Nazi war machine to contemporary corporate-government behavior. Three separate covers were released, each replacing the Nazi swastika with corporate logos (Nike, McDonalds, and Microsoft).
Faced with the ultimate time crunch in the spring of 2003, Stewart managed to use
Tweed’s 12th issue as his design thesis, killing two birds with one stone. Bill attempted to explain the evolution of economic power structures in a series of fantastical conclusionless essays. This is the longest print issue to date and contains a special handwritten interview with Grandaddy.
Following the release of
Rise, the Corporate Führer, Stewart greatly expanded the website’s content and made the executive decision to shift
Tweed’s focus from political essays to political interviews with musicians and artists. It wasn’t until over a year later that Bill began seriously contributing to these interviews. Tensions began to rise as Bill accused Stewart of being a dictator and Stewart took issue with Bill’s poor writing and editing.
In the early months of 2005 after numerous editorial fights and perceived back-stabbing, Stewart fired Bill from
Tweed, ending a decade long friendship. Sadly, Tim also departed. Bill continues to assert that he “quit” and that he was responsible for a great deal more than he actually had his hands in. Email records prove otherwise. He speciously continues to use
Tweed as a reference for new job positions, a sorry state of affairs. What began as an impenetrable brotherhood dissolved into two strangers who no longer speak to each other.
Issue Contents- The Rise of New America
- An Evolution of Power
- Fifth Generation Management
- Welcome to the World of the Ideological State Apparatus
- The New Proletariat
- All-Mighty America
- Works Cited
- Interview with First Aid Kit
- Review of GreenZine, Issue 12
- Interview with Sleater-Kinney [A Failure]
- A Big Fuck You to...Stars of Hip Hop
- Interview with Grandaddy
- List of Alternative Media Sources [URLs]
- Casper’s Hacking Page: Wave Encryption
- The Final Say
- Colophon
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