Re: [-empyre-] opening statement from boat-people.org

[sam-de-silva <sam@media.com.au>]

hi also,

i too am honoured to be invited :-) though i am not sure what contribution i 
can make here.

maybe the following:

* tactical media is the cry/hype that occurs between the clicking and 
releasing of a mouse click

* tactical media gets you invited to conferences around world

* tactical media gets you guest lecturer spots 

* tactical media helps your career path

* tactical media helps sell books

* clap for tactical media. cluck for activism. clop for boredom.

see ya, sam :-)

ps. i started up and continue to run the myspinach server (which is very very 
different to the spinach7 magazine) ... click for background: 
http://www.myspinach.org/sam/spinhistory.html



On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:20, Boat People wrote:
> greetings to the Empyre list.
> Boat-people.org are honoured to be invited.
>
> I thought I'd start by saying that our bio statement originally said
> that our work has encompassed sending online instructions for
> 'subversive, er, origami'.
>
> That 'er' is critical to our understanding of ourselves: we wish we
> could claim with zero irony to be deadset subversive, but we can't.
>
> The boat-people crew rack our collective brains for ways to talk
> back to the miasma of mendacity characterising public life here in
> australia; how to be antidotes to amnesia, how to illuminate the
> lies & what they obscure, how to mobilise wit, passion & creativity
> to undermine the empires' rule over us... and everything we come
> up with is gestural, symbolic, frail at best.  It blows away.
>
> We wish it were possible to 'click for activism'.
>
>
>
>
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