Syndicate: CAE Digital Resistance

["anna balint" <epistolaris@freemail.hu>]

[from Ben at Autonomedia]

Announcing: Digital Resistance, by the Critical Art Ensemble!


Digital Resistance is the most recent installment in the Critical Art
Ensemble's development of the theory and forms of tactical media practices.


So what is tactical media? The term was initially used to refer to "a
critical usage and theorization of media practices that draw on all forms of
old and new media, both lucid and sophisticated, for achieving a variety of
specific noncommercial goals and pushing all kinds of potentially subversive
political issues."


Maintaining that tactical media cannot be a monolithic (and thus easily
co-opted) model but a pliable one that must continually be reshaped, they
nonetheless articulate in this book a few principles which have general
value in the often-contradictory streams of tactical media. Over the course
of eight essays, they illustrate these principles through the broad material
and content base of tactical media, and demonstrate that "no cultural bunker
is ever fully secure. We can trespass in them all, inventing molecular
interventions and unleashing semiotic shocks that collectively could negate
the rising intensity of authoritarian culture."


More information on this book can be found at
http://www.autonomedia.org/digitalresistance. The Critical Art Ensemble is a
collective of five artists of various specializations dedicated to exploring
the intersections between art, technology, radical politics, and critical
theory. Their work, including the full texts of Digital Resistance and their
other Autonomedia books, can also be viewed at http://www.critical-art.net.


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