ricardo dominguez on 13 Mar 2001 19:23:38 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Hackers: the political heroes of cyberspace + URL target for NeTstrike |
----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrice Riemens" <patrice@xs4all.nl> To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 6:25 AM Subject: Re: <nettime> Hackers: the political heroes of cyberspace + URL target for NeTstrike > Quoting ricardo dominguez <rdom@thing.net>: > > > > > > So all in all, we are faced with a new threat, much worse than > > > net.art, Hacktivism becoming the latest media item of affection and > > > people like THEM becoming known as leading protagonists in this > > > oh so very exciting field where technology, art and politics merge... > > > > Damn!! Now Hacktivism is dead. > > > > r > > > > p.s. i know...it always/already was... > > p.p.s. i know...it was only bad idea gone wrong > > p.p.p.s i know...it should never have been attempted > > p.p.p.p.s i know...never mix technology, art and politics > > p.p.p.p.p.s i know...i forgot something else that is very important... > > > Yes Ricardo, you did forget the most important thing: the personality cult > that you created around the icon Ricardo Dominguez (and accessorily Stefan > Wray), and how you made the whole concept of hacktivism, which, > unsurprisingly, you guys did *not* invent, and which, in itself, was a > good meme, into a media dud to be from the very moment you laid your hands > on it. > Hola patrice and Mister Diiiino! I think, patrice and Mister Diiiino, that you give me "icon" Ricardo Dominguez and "icon" Stefan Wray (let us not forget super "icons" Carmin Karasic and Brett Stalbaum) far too much power. The power that I find happening under the signs of hacktivism - is that of the Cult of the SWARM -- and not that of any one single individual or group. The event horizon of "hacktivism" is that it has become a generalized phenomenon whose historical outcome is still ahead of us. It is still an empty term that can grow in multiple directions - sans media or qua media. The issue of our electronic actions connecting our data bodies with our real bodies, which were then sutured into the "icon" EDT - is that we chose to be transparent. This semantic gesture created syntactical disturbance among those who wanted the Cult of Anonymous and Tech_efficiency to rein on the networks. EDT felt that transparency would also allow us to speak to a great many more individuals and groups than a code of secrecy would have permitted. Transparency allowed a minor degree of control over the media spin that was needed for the of symbolic efficacy to occur. Lo-fi hacktivism is also about side_loading as much information about the context for the action as possible. I would say that a good 78% of the media articles that have appeared world wide about EDT and FloodNet - always mentioned the Zapatistas and the conditions in Chiapas, Mexico as the basic reasons behind these actions. Those who have very little must use what gestures they have to have their voices heard under thick wall of noise which neo-liberalism is constructing. Lo-fi hacktivism as it has emerged via EDT is indeed about injecting information into the media about an issue that is important enough to call attention to it. EDT is not against those who have the knowledge to build autonomous infrastructures and create filters that cut down the noise, or those who create via critique - we see them as part and parcel of the history of hacktivism, as well as its future. We have never said that hackers should desist from doing what moves them. But, we do not feel that "hacking" , as defined by you both, to be the only proper form of hacktivism that should be allowed to exist on the networks. The hacktivist disturbance will continue. ciao, "icon" ricardo dominguez p.s. dont forget about the NetStrike on March 15th, 2001 p.p.s. yes EDT did not invent "hacktivism" - Al Gore did! <<<>>> NETSTRIKE AGAINST TRADING ON LINE