Hi Brian! Well I was slightly kidding but more seriously: History suggests it's not a one way street from direct to symbolic action, the traffic can flow both ways. Ben
Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Dec 2017, at 18:23, Brian Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/17/2017 10:50 AM, Kein wrote: >> Quick pt: It's not 'symbolic' if you burn enough infrastructure. > > Right, then you can kick off a massive military/fascist reaction which isn't > symbolic either! > > Direct action either becomes symbolic, allowing for politics, or it becomes a > fight, allowing the stronger force to win. Just a few groups of determined > fire-wielding saboteurs would be highly effective in building the police > state of which they secretly dream... > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
