Sublime

This chapter explores the visceral and performative dimensions of activist networking through a comparative ethnographic analysis of anti-corporate globalization mobilizations in Prague and Barcelona.

social engagement to sustain democracy, people’s shared exercise of power. All of these essentials of social life are jeopardized by contemporary cultural trends which damage communication and prioritize self-interest.

seem to offer widespread constructive social engagement, with participants communicating, collaborating, co-creating and mutually supporting one another.

Hyperconnectivity in the cultural realm promises abundance, decommodification and democratization. Everyone has at their fingertips an infinitely rich and varieduniverse of cultural products. New cultural forms and innovative practices have proliferated. Much digital culture is freely shared rather than bought and sold. And ever-expanding circles o

continues to make available transformative contacts and encounters, as well as precipitating a more expansive theoretical and political imagination.

Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, Lance Bennett, Ryan Milner, and Jean Burgess,

vital force affecting and affected by transformations in, most obviously, sexual mores, as well as the politics of representation and the growth of network cultures.