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"The Seattle movement against corporate globalisation appears to have gained momentum - both on the street and online. But can we really speak of a synergy between street protests and online 'hacktivism'? No, but what they have in common is their (temporal) conceptual stage. Both real and virtual protests risk getting stuck at the level of a global'demo design' no longer grounded in actual topics and local situations. This means the movement never gets out of beta. At first glance, reconciling the virtual and the real seems to be an attractive rhetorical act. Radical pragmatists have often emphasized the embodiment of online networks in real-life society, dispensing with the real/virtual contradiction. Net activism, like the Internet itself, is always hybrid, a blend of old and new, haunted by geography, gender, race and other political instances. There is no pure disembodied zone of global communication, as the 90s cyber-mythology claimed."
A Virtual World is Possible: From Tactical Media to Digital Multitudes

que vocês acham deste texto? vejo algumas idéias interessantes que apontam para a originalidade do metareciclagem que saiu de uma organização virtual para o campo simbólico do real....