analysis of chapter 4

the first thing that i would ask is what tactic these people use. why do they choose to do things this way? what do the tactics tells us about people's ways of knowing? how is this connected to globalization? xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

i propose that individuals' ways of knowing in the case studies are effected by the global and the local, therefore they make decisive tactics base on these complicated influences and situations. My analysis will therefore be in two parts. the first is an investigation of how people adjust living in the global and local through analyzing the tactics that have been used. (this part we talk about globalization, disjuncture and difference, scales of globalization etc- what they do is they use humour to be adapt) In the second part i will discuss how tactics in the case studies are derivations or similar to the new social movements and the situationists. my case in point is that although javascript:void(0)the creators of these blog projects may not realise or admit it, they are in fact engaging in subversive actions against the official in order to regain their autonomy or part of it.

part 1
the survival mechanism: globalization and the ways of knowing
i will first start by looking at the tactics that are being used in these case studies. The most obvious difference that it has from those of the previous chapter used by artists are that they were displayed or performed in a public space without first being inspected or censored, and yet they were not stopped by the authorities. The authorities did not react not because they did know about the activities, in fact both of the case studies were reported and featured in mainstream media outside of the internet. Instead it is because these works were blanketed by seemingly innocent intentions that the authority could not act against them. The action figures' protest was a photoshoot meant to be show displeasure against odex, while the four million frowns project was a parody of the original government initiated campaign. What is similar is that both use humour to convey their messages. Yet at the same time both individuals who were responsible for the projects and whom i interviewed told me that they were fearful that they were doing things against the law for they did not know how the state will react to their works of resistance. They felt far because their projects were not officially approved. Humour is thus used as a mechanism for survival.

The usage of the blog in both case studies suggests the common use and influence of the internet and its tools in communication for resistance.
-globalization -networking




part 2: subverting the official