With creativity and desire hijacked so effectively by work, spectacle and cyberspace what, asks Franco ‘Bifo' Berardi – across three books published in English this year – has become of autonomy today?

Just what it says in the title: Peter Linebaugh and companions take a walk in Oaxaca in the aftermath of the state's bloody suppression of indigenous counter-power that may actually have posed a threat. 

January 10, 2007

A Twelfth Night Tale

A Walk in Oaxaca

By PETER LINEBAUGH

'Compulsive' is a word often used to describe our relationships with computers. Combine the compulsiveness of the computer drug with the hypnotic effects of voices on radio and you've got Torkradio. Frustrated by their experience of making 30 second 'audio blipverts' for a local radio station, Chris Dorley Brown and Bob Jarok of Cambridge's music and arts venue The Junction decided to make something more "marathon like" - an extended 72 hour audio experiment involving over 20 visual and performance artists.

This summer, the Bootlab collective hijacked the net’s new networking protocol for their Juni Radio experiment. The hope is to turn what looks like becoming a corporate hustle into a community radio tool. Darius James joined the merry pranksters

It is unlikely that Martians would invade Earth, especially now that radio no longer accommodates an Orson Welleslike grand concept that could make millions of Americans wrap their heads in wet towels to protect themselves from alien gas (War of the Worlds, 30 October 1938). Yet still, a Mars attack is probably more likely than the invasion of public space into the corporate media world.

At last, a radio station worth listening to. Dave Mandl tunes in