Open-Source Activism and the New Social Movements
I am delighted to inform you that I have stumbled upon a new theoretical framework for examining the identity-based politics with first emerged in the 1960’s, the so-called new left and new right. The framework is called New Social Movement Theory (NSM). I am currently reading the Alain Touraine (1995). Chesters and Welsh have integrated Complexity Theory Deleuze and NSM into a the tome Complexity and Social Movements (2006), in order to understand Identity Politics as Emergent phenomena.
NSM is a post-foucault, historically based examination of identity politics, and it is vital for understanding the Hacker, Radical feminist, lifestyle anarchism, militant veganism, transgender, burning man, genderqueer, women-born transsexual, autogynephilia, effeminism, radical faerie, fetish movement, crustpunk, femme, fat-activist, slow-food, queer, sex-positive, new-age movements which permeate 2011 San Francisco Bay Area. What happens here and in New York countercultures will eventually roll over your community, so pay attention.
Hacker Activism has become very prominent since Wikileaks changed our The included PDF is a dissertation about hacker culture as a NSM (the author really needs to read Chris Kelty’s Two-Bits, an Ethnography of Free-Software Activism)
