OK- this is something I keep coming up against.
It's to do with carnival and the bigger problem of 'tactics versus strategies' (DeCerteau). The Carnival as pre-selected 'Safety valve' set against Carnival as popular self-organised uprising. Also, where and how do you act? It goes back to situationist cultural tactics and how effective are they really? By concentrating our energies on the 'culture industry' or the cultural milieu are we not just playing at politics? Partaking in the spectacle of political action while making no real dents against power structures. It's a question I'm really interested in and while I cannot agree with the extremity of the Unabomber’s Year-Zero-type action (in my book, killing people is wrong!). What Theodore Kaczynski does raise is the problem of extreme disenfranchisement and how do you get yourself heard in any real sense of the word. His issues are extremely applicable to the next technology module too.
Ute also mentioned the classic (and very relevant) question: “what if Hitler went to Art School?”
Check out the manifesto:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski
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