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The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle*
They hoped these technologies would make it possible for people to inhabit “temporary autonomous zones” — the socio-political tactic of creating temporary spaces in the physical world or cyberspace that elude formal systems of control.
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Pawan Rochwani added
If one’s goal is radical social transformation, electronic media in their current forms of mass availability are not useless—but only when they are subordinate to struggles and encounters taking place elsewhere.
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Movements have succeeded in using online tools to spread their messages and cause fleeting disruptions, but those achievements have not translated into lasting democratic blocs that have shifted power in meaningful ways.11
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
This utterly decentralized and amorphous force increasingly self-organizes to provide its own news, entertainment, and services.
Anthony Williams • Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
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Temporary Autonomous Zones are not some identity circus ground for forgotten countercultures. The organization and maintenance of our own virtual and real spaces is pivotal.
Jess Henderson • Digital Lockdown with Geert Lovink —
Lillian Sheng added
Perhaps this pattern of radicalisation followed by recuperation has even happened with each emergent technology – newspapers, novels, film, (pirate) radio, the Internet. Each time, the new medium has a progressive force, dehabituating people from expected relations, offering new channels for experimental activity, mediatised subcultures, and the sp... See more
Andy McLaverty-Robinson • Walter Benjamin: Art, Aura and Authenticity | Ceasefire Magazine
Tara McMullin added
The philosopher Alphonso Lingus says, “We really have to free the notion of liberation and revolution from the idea of permanently setting up some other kind of society.” Subcommandante Marcos understands well that what older revolutionary movements would have considered victory would be defeat for the Zapatistas, and he calls Zapatismo “not an ide
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The philosopher Alphonso Lingus says, “We really have to free the notion of liberation and revolution from the idea of permanently setting up some other kind of society.” Subcommandante Marcos understands well that what older revolutionary movements would have considered victory would be defeat for the Zapatistas, and he calls Zapatismo “not an ide
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