For Baudelaire the Battle of Seattle and Iraq War never happened - or was that Douglas Rushkoff?
Assuming Rushkoff had a good story to tell about anti-corporate-globalization via virtual summit-hopping ( hactivism ) and antiwar activism including netwarfare of the early noughties ( Iraq invasion ) it must now be buried since his post-2018 Marxist turn. That is huge and almost immediate victories for networked activism by June 2005 must be disowned since such victories never overthrew capitalism or truly fulfilled all the decentralized promise of the 90’s. But if Rushkoff sat out those key battles of 1998 - 2005 then he falls into the Socratic rat-trap. Ignoring epoch-shattering events just so you can pose, preen and posture as a notable theorist is like Socrates trying to excuse the reign of the 30 tyrants. Either way Rushkoff has exiled himself from networked anarchism and by drinking the red-Kool-aid he’s committing suicide.
