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Activism!: Direct Action, Hacktivism and the Future of Society (FOCI)

By Tim Jordan

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
1861891229, 9781861891228
Open Library ID
OL17056966M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
572 kB (586063 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
192\166
Topic
Computers Security
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Many schools of thought assert that Western culture has never been more politically apathetic. Tim Jordan's Activism! refutes this claim. In his powerful polemic, Jordan shows how acts of civil disobedience have come to dominate the political landscape. Because we inhabit such a quickly changing, high-tech and fragmented culture, the single-issue political movements and stable, conservative authorities of the past are continually being questioned. Traditional political battles have been replaced by the popular, collective practices of a new political activism. From Europe to the USA, from Australia to South America, from the Left to the Right, Jordan introduces us to the citizens who make up d-i-y culture: eco-activists, animal liberators, neo-fascists, ravers, anti-abortionists, squatters, hunt saboteurs and hacktivists. In his view, activism comprises a new ethics of living for the 21st century.

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