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Freedom of the Street

Telecommunication experiments, mailbox subcultures, hacker schemes are attempts to make "the net" invisible, transparent, walk-able:

"The really revolutionary medium of May'68 were the walls with their paroles, the silk screen or hand painted posters, the street, in which the word was seized and exchanged - everything that was immediate enlistment, that could be given and taken back, that could be said and answered, that moved, at the same time and in the same place. (...) In this sense the street is the alternative and subversive form of all mass media, because unlike them it is not the objectified carrier of messages without answers, not a transmission network functioning at a distance, but rather a free field for the symbolic exchange of ephemeral and mortal speech, a form of speech that isn't represented on the platonic screens of the media."

(Baudrillard, Jean: Requiem für die Medien, in: ders.: Kool Killer oder der Aufstand der Zeichen, Berlin 1978,p. 83-118, p.110)