[syndicate] PROTEST & THE WEB (& ART)

[fmadre at free.fr]

Selon mpalmer at jps.net:
> This is not to say that a webpage doesn't have its positive uses, albeit at a
> modest level. It can serve to organize like-minded people from disparate
> parts of the world; it can serve as a forum for the debate of issues and the
> raising of money and awareness. But it will never be a medium of radical
> change, due to inherent structural limitations that confine it to a passive
> role within the context of capital.

this is exactly what I think and have told during my panel on, 
shrug, "hacktivism" at the sorbonne

> From this, one may conclude that the notion of political net art is an
> oxymoron, at least in its current state. Net art is and has always been
> apolitical at best, and reactionary without knowing it at worse.

Here I kinda disagree
art is and has always been apolitical at best
and reactionay without knowing it
at worse
not specially on the net
(if there can be art on the net, at all)

f.