Index

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                                                 5

INTRODUCTION                                                     7
A Resurgence of Social Protest in an Era of Ubiquitous Media     7
Hybrid Space                                                    11
 
TACTICAL MEDIA: BY ANY MEDIA NECESSARY                          13

TACTICAL MEDIA: A NON-MOVEMENT WITHOUT A DEFINITION             17
On ‘The Tactical’ in Tactical Media                             18
Tactical Media Ecologies                                        19
Tactical Media: Finished or not?                                21

TACTICAL MEDIA AND THE POLITICS OF THE ARCHIVE                  24

THE CRASH OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM: CULTURE JAMMING AFTER 9/11     27
Mental Environmentalism                                         31

EVERYONE IS A MEDIA ARTIST!                                     33
Social Sculpture                                                33
Schlingensief’s Chance 2000                                     35
Tactical Media and the Participatory Logic of DIY Media Culture 36
Collective Cultural Action                                      37
Intimate Media: Scale and Feedback                              38
The Spectre of Affective Labour                                 40

MEDIA SQUARES: TACTICAL MEDIA IN HYBRID SPACE                   42
Everybody Back to the Street! (Preliminary Lessons from Egypt)  43
Transgression in Self-Mediation                                 45
A New Subjectivity?                                             46

CONCLUSION: TACTICAL CARTOGRAPHIES FOR A HYBRID REALITY         49

BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                    53