How can power express itself digitally?
AK: First, maybe it’s a mistake to think of unitary social movements as we have in the past. It leads to a very totalitarian perspective. Second, a different form of politics, particular to third-millennium culture, is taking shape. It is much more polymorphous and ambivalent in character. And on the Net, a lot of interesting politics are happening. Take the movement of solidarity toward Sarajevo, for example. Sarajevo is today’s Spanish Civil War. But is this digital solidarity effective? The Zapatistas put press releases on the Net. Yet, it didn’t change much at ground level. AK: How can people outside Mexico really intervene decisively against the Mexican government’s fascist policies of extermination? This is the peculiarity of life today. At the same time digital media encourages a global consciousness, parts of the world recede into darkness. So wired culture doesn’t change things much, does it? AK: Why should it? There are limits to wired culture, and one of its properties is th
