Abstract

LOPEZ CUENCA, Alberto  and  MENDEZ COTA, Gabriela. Between digital art and political activism.Experiments of electronic sociability during Neoliberal Mexico (1994-2018). Índex [online]. 2019, n.8, pp.168-175. ISSN 2477-9199.  https://doi.org/10.26807/cav.v0i08.279.

Since the Zapatista uprising in Mexico in 1994, some digital practices have experimented with forms of sociability in which the distinctions between digital art and political activism are blurred. In this article, we will focus on notoriously different cases such as Mejor Vida Corp. (1998), sitio*TAXI (2004), El Rancho Electrónico (2013) or Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias (2016) that during the rise of Neoliberalism in Mexico and its trend towards privatizing telecommunications have engaded in specif ways of producing forms of sociability digitally mediated. We propose the commons as key concept for understanding the singularity of these processes of sociability, which allows us to characterize how experimental social relations are produced and maintained in the midst of market capitalism. As a conclusion, we will underline that in these processes of digital commoning community is not assumed as a presupposition but rather as an uncertain result of digital mediations.

Keywords : commons: digital commons; EZLN; contemporary art; community; Minerva Cuevas; Antoni Abad; Rhizomática.

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