"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us."
~J. Culkin
~J. Culkin
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Forwarded from Galactocosmic Ontological Disorder (Batzrov)
Also striking here is the appearance of Anonymous as a paradoxical symbol of contemporary activism – not so much a group, and certainly not a formal political organization, but rather a rhizomatic formation of anonymous individuals that spreads through the networks of our neoliberal control societies, disrupting its circuits at critical points, hacking into government databases, revealing corporate and state secrets, eavesdropping on the eavesdroppers and wreaking as much havoc as possible within the system of power – creating, as Deleuze put it earlier, ‘vacuoles of noncommunication’. The fact that government agencies simply do not know how to deal with this assault on their apparatuses of control and surveillance is indicative of the power and resonance of invisibility today. Foucault once said that he wrote in order to have no face. Perhaps, in the same way, singularities today make themselves invisible, efface and dis-identify themselves, in order to create a space for autonomy and freedom of political action.
Postanarchism by Saul Newman
Postanarchism by Saul Newman
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