Tactical Cyberfeminism:
An Art and Technology of Social Relations
By subRosa

THE PRACTICE OF THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF DIFFERENCE: REFUGIA/BAZ

Current global conditions of acute economic injustice and suffering in the digitized, war-supported world order are being contested by a gathering wave of self-organized demonstrations and direct actions against corporate economic and bio-colonization and authoritarian take-over. Youth, women, and politically poor people are initiators and shock troops of these actions worldwide. Feminism's strong history of direct action and cultural intervention and postcolonial and net-activist strategies are generative inspirations for many of these actions. Cyberfeminists can have a crucial role in this gathering wave. Using our skills, tools, access, and knowledge we can initiate and support critical direct action and solidarity projects with women worldwide who are facing, from the bottom up, the top-down power vectors of corporate globalism.

Refugia/BAZ
(Becoming Autonomous Zone Poster)
and ongoing Tactical Media Lab.


BAZ poster anti-surVEILance
As artists - people who because of the social division of labor have a particular set of skills in representation - we can lend those skills to this growing momentum. In many ways this strategy is indebted to the tradition of coalition politics, where disparate groups who have different agendas and do not agree on everything, come together around an issue or issues, so that the sum of differences is greater than the parts, each group retaining its autonomy.

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