Steemfest Topic: Inciting Subversion of State Power

 I'm counting down the days until Lisbon!   I thought I'd share the full description of my talk here, since there isn't much room on the Steemfest website.

                               

"Inciting Subversion of State Power "

The types of media prevalent during different points in history incentivize comparable forms of public spectacle and radical action.  With innovations in digital technologies, the culture of resistance often struggles to catch-up, experimenting with forms of interaction for maximum impact with varying degrees of success. Social relationships are now objectified through digital commodities, communicative capitalism undermines traditional political strategies and all of this presents an opportunity for exploitation. From a practical standpoint, what are the relationships between technology, civic associations, and power? What are the limitations of emerging technological platforms, and what advantages do these deficiencies present? Delving into actions by The Satanic Temple and other political actors, Blackmore will explore the ways in which we can leverage, innovate, adapt and distort states of reality in the digital era as a means of subversion.