Index

2 Icons of Revolution 
23 Peter Weibel, Preface 
29 Peter Weibel, People, Politics, and Power

Chapter I

Activism and the Citizen

65 Robin Celikates, Learning from the Streets: Civil Disobedience in Theory and Practice 
73 Bruno Latour, War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Conflicts 
85 Ugo Mattei, Institutionalizing the Commons: An Italian Primer 
100 Antonio Negri, Living in a Time of Crisis
111 Peter Sloterdijk, Last Exit Indignation: On Neutralizing Civilians in Democracies 
119 Karl-Peter Sommermann, The Right of Resistance: Approaches in Legal Philosophy
129 Slavoj Zizek, Don’t Fall in Love with Yourselves

Adbusters 132 — Amnesty International 134 — Anonymous 136 — Attac 137 —
Olaf Bertram-Nothnagel, lowercase d: Getting There 138 — Nadir Bouhmouch 140 — Noam Chomsky 142 — Hassan Darsi 144 — Muath Freij 146 — Sacha Goldman 148 — Régis Debray, Lead to Believe 148 — Greenpeace 150 — Stéphane M. Grueso 152 — Stéphane Hessel, The Hope of Continuity 154 — Jim Hubbard 156 — Human Rights Watch 158 — Kein Mensch ist illegal 160 — Jan Jaap Kuiper and Katja Sokolova 162 — Lynn Lauterbach 164 — Let’s Do It! World 166 — Museum of the Revolution 168 —
No TAV 170 — Protests against Stuttgart 21 172 — rabble 174 — Resist 176 —
Mykola Ridnyi 178 — Robin Wood 180 — Faten Rouissi 182 — Stop the Traffik 184 — Tanya Sushenkova 186 — Terre des Hommes 188 — The Yes Men 190 —
Transparency International 192 >— MalalaYousafzai 194 —Wango 196 —
The Damascus Bureau 197 — Yezzi 197

Chapter II

Public and Private Sphere

201 Can Altay, A Public Presence versus Greed, Brutality, and Control: Gezi Park 207 Korhan Gümü§, Liberating Public Spaces: Where to Start?
211 Walter D. Mignolo, Re:emerging, Decentring, and Delinking: Shifting the
   Geographies of Sensing, Believing, and Knowing 225 Dimitris Papadopoulos, Vassilis Tsianos, and Margarita Tsomou,
   Athens: Metropolitan Blockade - Real Democracy 233 Slavoj Zizek, Freedom in the Clouds

IMediengruppe Bitnik 242 — #StopWatchingUs 246 Paolo Cirio 248 —
Creative Commons 252 — Hedonist International 253 — Julia “Butterfly” Hill 254 — Mikaela 256 — Surveillance Camera Players 258 — Thomson & Craighead 260 — Troika 264 — Cyber Guerilla 266 — We Are the 99 Percent 267

Chapter III

How to Do Activism

271 Youness Belghazi and Hadeer Elmahdawy, “Arab Spring Is Not Over, 
   but Continues in a Different Way. ”

279 Sarah Maske, Activist Women ’s Rights Groups: Demands and Methods 
289 Rita Raley, The Ordinary Arts of Political Activism
298 Martha Rosier, The Artistic Mode of Revolution: From Gentrification to Occupation 
315 Guido Strack, Whistle-blowing as a Global Protest Movement and Its Relationship 
   with the Law
325 Bo Zheng, Nearby Facts to Trouble the Emperor: A Note from China

Zanny Begg 332 — John Beieler 334 — Campact 336 — Canvas 338 —
Ralf Christensen 340 — Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan 342 — Sasha Kurmaz 344 —
Julia Leser and Clarissa Seidel 346 — Partizaning 348 — Oliver Ressler 352 —
The Riahi Brothers, Everyday Rebellion: A Cinema Documentary, a Web Platform,
and a Smartphone Application 360 — Sandra Schäfer 366 — Kreativer Straßenprotest 368 —
Politics Outdoors 368 — Take the Square 369

Chapter IV

Tactical, Social, and Global Media

373 Graham Meikle, Distributed Citizenship and Social Media 
384 Marcus Michaelsen, Beyond the “Twitter Revolution“: Digital Media and 
   Political Change in Iran 
396 Zixue Tai, Finger Power and Smart Mob Politics: Social Activism and Mass Dissent in China in the Networked Era

Johanna Domke and Marouan Omara 408 — Electronic Disturbance Theater 410 — 
Sharon Hayes 412 — kanalB 414 — MootiroMaps 416 — Taryn Simon and 
Aaron Swartz 418 — Tweets from Tahrir 420 — UK Uncut 424 — Christoph Wächter 
and Mathias Jud, Crossing the Bosphorus with Tin Cans: How Global Networking Compels 
Self-Criticism 426 — “We are all Majid” 436 — #occupygezi 438 — 0. 438 —
Actipedia 439 — Anonymous News Germany 439 — Martin Balluch 440 —
Facebook 440 — Freedom of the Press Foundation 441 — Independent Media Center 
(Indymedia) 441 — International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest 442 —
Iranian Riots 442 — Meetup 443 — Meta-Activism 443 — Solitary Watch 444 —
Twitter 444 — WikiLeaks 445 — YouTube 445

Chapter V

“Artivism” - Art and Activism

449 Sruti Bala and Veronika Zangl, Humor’s Opponents: Artistic Activism 
   and the Ludic Aesthetic 
455 Tatiana Bazzichelli, Networked Disruption: Connecting Arts Hacktivism, 
   and Business in Political Struggles 
462 Dietrich Heissenbüttel, Protest Everywhere?
483 Sarah Lewison and Dan S. Wang, In the Back of the Beyond:
   “What Time Is It on the Clock of the World?”
493 André Mesquita, Noises in the Concrete: Artistic Activism in Säo Paulo
511 Joulia Strauss, Demonstrations Are Performances 
515 Tatiana Volkova, The Chronicles of Russian Activist Art
531 Ahmad Zatari, How the Jordanian Music Scene Missed the Arab Spring 
535 M. Ragip Zik, Raising Resistance: Reinterpreting Art within the 
Gezi Movement

Ammar Abo Bakr and Ganzeer, Street Art War in Egypt: An Interview 544 — G.M.B.
Akash 552 — ArtLeaks 554 — Bombily 556 — Angela Bonadies and Juan José Olavarria, 
La Torre de David 558 — Osman Bozkurt 564 — ChimfPom 566 — Chto Delat? 568 — 
Colectivo Etcétera 570 — Enmedio 572 — Ramy Essam 574 — Noah Fischer 576 — 
Floating Lab Collective 578 — Jakob Gautel and Jason Karamdros 582 — Erdem Gündüz,
The Meaning of Freedom-Excerpts from an Interview with the Turkish Artist Erdem Gündüz 584 — 
Ed Hall 590 — Brian Haw and Mark Wallinger 592 — Idis Hartmann and Peter Weibel, 
State Britain: Activist Art vs. Artistic Activism 592 — Niklas Hoffmann and Rebecca 
Meining 598 — Alexey Iorsh 600 — Just Do It. 602 — Amadou Kane Sy 604 — 
Thomas Kilpper 606 — Kiss my Ba 610 — Mischa Kuball 612 — Christopher 
LaMarca 614 — Mohammed Laouli 616 — Viktoria Lomasko 618 — Renzo Martens 620 — 
Masasit Mati 622 —* Medialmpact 624 — MindBomb 626 Carlos Motta 628 — 
MTL 630 — Nitasha Dhillon, Amin Husain, and Yates McKee, # Occupy Wallst:
A Possible Story 631 — Neozoon 640 — Christof Nüssli and Christoph Oeschger 642 — 
Jean-Gabriel Périot 644 — Platform 646 — Pussy Riot 648 — R.E.P. 650 — Itamar Rose 
and Yossi Atia 652 — Bahia Shehab 654 — SOSka group 656 — Joulia Strauss with 
Moritz Mattem 658 — Jackie Sumell, The Best Activism Is Always Equal Parts Love and 
Equal Parts Anger 660 — Teatro Valle Occupato 666 — Ugo Mattei, The Valle Theater 
Commons Foundation: How to Deploy the Law in Current and Future Struggles 667 —
Patricia K.Triki and Christine Bruckbauer 682 — Voina 684 — Alexander Volodarsky 686 — 
AalamWassef 688 — Peter Weibel 690 — Yomango 692

694 Appendix
720 Icons of Revolution