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the Public Sphere Steven Kurtz on Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:16:51
+0100 (CET)   <nettime> ECD, Simulation, and the Public Sphere
Electronic Civil Disobedience, Simulation, and the Public Sphere
Critical Art Ensemble  What counts in the long run is the _use_
one makes of a theory....We must start from existing practices
in order to retrace the fundamental --Felix Guattari,  _Why Marx
and Freud No Longer Disturb Anyone_  In 1994, when Critical Art
Ensemble first introduced the idea and a possible model of
electronic civil disobedience (ECD) as another option for
digital resistance, the collective had no way of knowing what
elements would be the most practical, nor did it know what
elements would require additional explanation. After nearly five
years of field testing of ECD by various groups and individuals,
its information gaps have become a little more obvious and can
finally be addressed. Of particular concern in this essay is the
recent turn of event