Cyberactivism and new urban movements: the production of the new public space in contemporary politics

Abstract

In the era of mass self-communication, it seems logical to critically review the meta-research in communication, the dialectical, recursive, and generative reflexivity of the field to recompose the observation positions, something similar to what Zizek describes in Parallax Vision on object changes and observer positions. Cyberactivism manifests subaltern modalities and configurations of antagonism and autonomy of popular sectors that must be considered in their historical radicality. The complementarity of these categories accounts for a new culture and political subjectivation marked by the emergence of unprecedented processes of struggle for emancipation. The present work proposes a conceptual analysis of contemporary techno-politics from a Marxist reading of the emerging public sphere as an oppositional public space regarding class structure. Starting from the deconstruction of the observation position but also from the change of objects introduced by the digital revolution, the work provides a materialistic reading of the deconstruction of conventional ideas about digital culture in the production of new political subjectivities, approaching the multidimensional reality of the structuring function of communication as a problem of productive articulation with the process of change and innovation of our postmodernity by the nature of the new cultural economy.