"The artist needs to learn how to operate as a nomadic sophist in a migrant polis." Krzystof Wodiczko
I just read "The ABC of Tactical Media" by David Garcia and Geert Lovink and Electronic Civil Disobedience by the Critical Art Ensemble which were both really interesting texts! What they both have in common is the statement that the new forms of activism have to be decentralized. In the first reading this happens through tactical media "jumps" which are possible through "the pace of technological change and regulatory uncertainty". The second one mainly states that resistance has to get away from the streets and find its new place in the cyberspace, where the organization is also decentralized - that means it consists of a micro structure containing a lot of organic cells, which have their own identities. These cells work together with the common goal to resist authoritarian power. Hereby the prevalent schism between knowledge and technical ability must be closed.
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