<nettime-ann> Mobil Protest

[Jameson Wallace <xchicago@gmail.com>]

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Mobil Protest

Mobil Protestors are invisible.  They create low-level drama noise to  
a site-specific theater.

Mobil Protest has three initial toolkits: wireless technology, the  
illusion of images, and the principles of fluid movement through space.

Mobil Protestors do not march, they crowd the area.  They do not walk  
in parades or stand around holding a sign. They look like their  
advisories.  They dress in suites on Wall Street, and like soccer moms  
in the park.  You cant tell them apart, unless you really stop to ask  
questions.  They take up people's time.  A flash mob of impostors will  
always be more confusing than a flash mob of clowns.

Mobil Protestors never break the law, and they record everything.

The goal of Mobil Protest is to create temporary zones of complete  
system failure. Mobil Protest works to clog every available public  
resource and line of communication in the physical space of the target.

Tactically, Mobil Protest is an application of Guerilla Warfare to  
digital resistance.

Mobil Protestors control reality by being in it, at the time and  
place.  Just decide to go get a coffee, and spill it on the way out.   
Take all the napkins.


The Mobility

The Mobility, or the mobile nobles, are class-less, in that their  
specialization in movement provides them easy access to both social  
and physical spaces.  Transportation and communication are the central  
skills of this pursuit; collapsing distance physically and inter- 
personally.

The Mobility never stay long, but they can always be reached.  The can  
go anywhere and talk to anyone.  Because of their unique calling, The  
Mobility are always at odds with territorialism.  Passing through the  
dividing lines between people and places inevitably calls the  
Mobility's allegiance into question by those interested in maintaining  
boundaries.  It is not that boundaries are invisible to the Mobility,  
but rather that the mechanics of territorialization place lower on  
their list of priorities.

The interest of the Mobility extends beyond cultural tourism; it  
returns some cultural to the tour. Rather than being consumed by  
spectacle, they allow the spectacle.  Rather than consuming the  
culture they inhabit, they nourish their hosts.  The Mobility act on  
very small stages and can affect the entire global arena.

The Mobility frees the political imperative from the moral  
imperative.  Their morality is subservient to their perception of  
reality, broad in their acceptance; ruthless in their punishment.

They identify their preservation with that of the society at large.   
They are society's protection against the factions of itself; they  
fight greed as easily as ignorance.  They defend the individual, not  
for their divisions, but outside their awareness.

Neither is The Mobility interested in dissolving boundaries;  
boundaries are central to an individual's understand of the world and  
themselves; they create similarity and difference; they are useful in  
noting the wide array of personalities that comprise our world.

The Mobility do not live in imaginary realities, their preservation  
depends on their pursuit of what is, rather than what should be.


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