Rogueish

Movements of non-violent resistence have always known how to turn unfriendly forums into propaganda opportunities — the early Christians, for instance, were being eaten alive by wild animals in some cases — but what do you do when there simply is no forum? What do you do when the “mass media” is segmented into mutually exclusive parallel realities? What do you do when the closest thing to a “public space” has been divvied up among private corporations? What do you do when protesters are given their own little area when they try to take to the streets?

Yes! Whenever I read the latest liberal demand that we moderate our protest to prevent the minutest hypothetical discomfort in some imagined mass audience, I wonder what century they think they’re living in (which isn’t to say that simply discomforting a mass audience is a productive strategy; rather, the whole question of the relationship between protest and “audience” needs to be rethought).