Re: <nettime> dark days

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

I agree with Dimitry below. It should be noticed that existing 
communication circuits and forms of social cooperation have all been 
built over the last twenty years. On the one hand, social media was at 
least partially prefigured by Indymedia and similar iniatives fifteen 
years ago, the huge circuits for the relay of news from movement to 
movement have been built up more or less deliberately, and the form of 
swarming, or the sustained temporal pulsation of 
concentration/dispersion of forces, is not just a spontaneous phenomenon 
but a learned and widely shared strategy. Plus all this has been relayed 
by more bourgeois publics-sphere structures, giving rise to the 
phenomena of strategic press leaks and also some judicial harassement of 
authrotarian regimes. On the other hand, we don't have formal 
organizations beyond the General Assembly, so the power dialectic of 
delegation and direct action has not been developed very much at all. 
Everyone is now saying this is the next step. I agree.

best, Brian

On 06/12/2013 05:03 AM, Dmitry Vilensky wrote:

> what really bother me and put my mindset into
> more pessimistic point of view is a general lack of new forms of militant
> organisation' structure which could formalize a power for the change -
> sorry to say but I can hardly believe that euphoria on the side of popular
> movements with non-representational principle of organisation could work in
> a the situation of a real war which we face today - we need to invest a lot
> of efforts into the building of the structures which again could
> dialecticaly embrace the power of delegation and direct participation


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