Empire (hacktivismo)

[matthew piscioneri]

Filipe,

sorry I omitted to respond to the central aspect of your last post:

>When I ask for a "praxis perspective", I think
>on something like a feedback process between POLITICAL action and
>intelectual activity. As you suggest, action and thinking are disjoinable
>streams (?!) of our existence. But I think we can distinguish between
>moments when the POLITICAL intervention is at stake --what we call 
>practice,
>distinct from whatever action we take, like drink coffee, and no matter the
>weight of theory-intelectual intervention--, and a theoretical work which
>must sometimes even put itself away from the pressures of practical needs 
>in
>order to... I will not say "think better about reality", but maybe we can
>say: in order to (try to) restrain the limits that can be settle by those
>needs (particularly when we are confronted with more traditional political
>issues, but maybe it goes the same for "micropolitics" too...). Ciberspace
>communication, barricades, riots and social work are obviously one thing or
>another, or both. The link between these two "poles" always exist somehow,
>but maybe we can call "praxis" the effort for a more elaborate dynamics of
>this feedback, which somehow guides our political practice. The question I
>made was about the strenght of FS in terms of given us support for this
>"more elaborated dynamics" on present times. I don't think that stimulous 
>is
>a sufficient answer...

Personally, I think critical thinking is a political action. Critical 
thinking takes its place as praxis alongside other forms of political 
praxis. That's how I see it. My teenage children go off to rallies. I sit at 
home and think :-). I take theirs and my political actions to be of equal 
validity AND worth.

I like your idea of a feedback between all these sorts of political action. 
My frivolous objection to radical sectarianism is very simple. I consider we 
are all in communication here in order to break walls down rather than set 
them up. I consider the erecting of barricades to hinder freedom, if you'll 
excuse the pun.

Best,

MattP.

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