[Noisebridge-discuss] TEDxVienna: monochrom's Johannes Grenzfurthner: On how to subvert subversion

[Sai]

Great presentation as usual, Johannes. What're y'all planning for the
next subversiveness?

- Sai

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, das ende der nahrungskette
<jg at monochrom.at> wrote:
> hey folks!
> thought you might be interested in this...
>
> ==cut==
>
> Talk presented at TEDxVienna, November 2010.
>
> YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Rvh8VG3o8
>
> The term "context hacking" -­ like its older
> mimetic sibling "communication guerrilla" -­
> refers to unconventional forms of communication
> and/or intervention in more conventional
> processes of communication. Context hacking is a
> specific style of political action drawing from a
> watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of
> power, turning these into the starting point for
> subversive interventions. It's a strategy of
> playing with representations and identities, with
> alienation and over-identification. But a
> fundamental question remains: is it still
> possible to subvert? Or are we all stuck in an
> endless late-capitalist cycle of revolt and
> assimilation? Johannes Grenzfurthner will present
> a project by monochrom, a worldwide operating
> collective from Vienna dealing with technology, art, and philosophy.
>
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