Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and ed
Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media
β Scribed by Critical Art Ensemble
- Publisher
- Autonomedia
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 185
- Edition
- 2001. Revised 2
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This third volume of essays in tactical media (following The Electronic Disturbance and Electronic Civil Disobedience) traces the developing topographies of digital intervention. Indicating that no cultural bunker is ever fully secure, the CAE show the possibilities of trespass, unleashing semiotic shocks that collectively could negate the rising intensity of authoritarian culture. Topics include contestational robotics, the financial advantages of anti-copyright, recombinant theater-as-resistance, and the possible roles of children as tactical media participants.
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