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Perhaps political organizing has come full circle. At some point, the choices in a highly mediated society fragmented experience (and opinion) to such a degree to require direct intervention on behalf of political change. If the channels can always be changed, then the effectiveness of TV ads diminishes. If other websites can be read, the power of internet based campaigning similarly diminishes. The proliferation of choice demands a style of political activism that disrupts the limiting channels of personalized transportation, entertainment, and living. This mode of political speech operates under capillary forms of distribution, and addressing one artery doesn’t guarantee that there can or will be a disruption of the overall bloodstream. In extending the metaphor further, the best method for change may rely on disconnecting people from the stream by direct action and organizing that focuses on spatial relationships as much as individual political choices.

Duncan