An Audible Books advertisement featuring the image of an orangutan that has been written over and thus repurposed by members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR). Playing on the orangutan’s international reputation as an icon of extinction, the grafitti drew attention to XR’s planned rally in and occupation of London’s Parliament Square on 31 October 2018, when XR launched its civil disobedience campaign and made its ‘Declaration of Rebellion’ against the UK government. Taken on the London Underground, this photograph is a valuable reminder of how representations can travel (quite literally), transform, and take on new meanings as they move.
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