User:Eleanorg/RRW 1.1/Essay outline
Where can freedom live?
Raoul Vaneigem's demand for absolute freedom, and the attempt to create (digital) spaces outside of exchange
- RV's "here & now" approach to political change is contradicted by "all or nothing" totalizing - true freedom must be completely outside of exchange
- RV rejects communist vanguards' "revolutions" but proposes an equally stringent standard of political freedom
- What, then, are the spaces in which RV's notion of absolute freedom can take root?
- Early writing on cyberspace as new frontier/ independent land - see 'Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace'; Pirate Bay's refusal to cooperate with laws of exchange.
- Hakim Bey: "the question of land refuses to go away" - how do digital utopias negotiate nation states?
- Pirate Bay's server seizures and their plot at one point to buy Sealand in international waters
- How do the survival strategies of Pirate Bay measure up to RV's notion of the total rejection of exchange; uncompromised freedom? Where can they 'live'?