If the "sharing economy" has become a front for exploitative labour practices, tech activists might propose a collective bargaining app, a crowdsourced lobbying campaign, a networked co-op for workers whose cream is being skimmed by venture-backed corporations.
This cultural intervention set the tone for Ant Farm's decadelong practice of activist installations and videos, including "Cadillac Ranch Show" (1974), "Media Burn" and "The Eternal Frame" (both 1975), which rank among the most poignant examples of early video art.
They could adopt Britain's practice of allowing activists to call a shareholder meeting at which individual board members can be voted out.
The original made reference to Sir Hugh Orde defending "hyper-kettling" – the practice of corralling activists into an area then decreasing the space.
In response to anti-fracking protests, France has slapped a moratorium on the practice; in Britain, activists for Frack Off, a pressure group, have shut down drill sites.Reasons to worry, and not toEnvironmentalists are probably worrying too much about the immediate consequences of fracking.
There are also examples of how activists practice self-care and using coping mechanisms to deal with the hardships of prison.
And as of 2014, prosecutions of migrants for illegal entry and re-entry ― a practice reviled by activists and criticized by legal scholars ― still made up one-third of federal criminal cases.
Schulman's is a literary-activist practice of remarkable elasticity: she continually demands a new world through creative engagement, and fills in the gaps as she goes.
"The piece investigates questions relating to temporality, the body in site, representation and gender through consideration of the use of the body in performance as an activist practice," a press release from the SPILL website reads.
To Brand's credit, he's since refined the clumsy, somewhat narcissistic statements of that Paxman interview into a sustained activist practice – appearing at demonstrations as well as consciousness-raising events around the globe.
