"Every Home Is Wired": 4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

"Every Home Is Wired":
4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

De Certeau remains unclear on this point, particularly with respect to the problem of whether, and if so, how, tactical groups can turn into strategic institutions. As he describes, "a tactic insinuates itself into the other's place, fragmentarily, without taking it over in its entirety, without being able to keep it at a distance. It has at its disposal no base where it can capitalise on its advantages, prepare its expansions, and secure independence" (xix). This is a view which describes the situation in a relatively stable or static society, and might not be entirely applicable in today's environment of marked changes brought on particularly by the advent of the Internet as a mass-participation medium. In all, perhaps, his distinction between strategists and tacticians is overly binary and depends on a society with deeply entrenched strategic institutions, disempowered tactical masses, and few, well-controlled major public fora of interaction. Today, with the strong fragmentalisation of Western societies, it may be far more possible that groups can form strategic institutions within their own societal segments, but are forced to act more tactically when venturing outside them.	Bit 10

De Certeau remains unclear on this point, particularly with respect to the problem of whether, and if so, how, tactical groups can turn into strategic institutions. As he describes, "a tactic insinuates itself into the other's place, fragmentarily, without taking it over in its entirety, without being able to keep it at a distance. It has at its disposal no base where it can capitalise on its advantages, prepare its expansions, and secure independence" (xix). This is a view which describes the situation in a relatively stable or static society, and might not be entirely applicable in today's environment of marked changes brought on particularly by the advent of the Internet as a mass-participation medium. In all, perhaps, his distinction between strategists and tacticians is overly binary and depends on a society with deeply entrenched strategic institutions, disempowered tactical masses, and few, well-controlled major public fora of interaction. Today, with the strong fragmentalisation of Western societies, it may be far more possible that groups can form strategic institutions within their own societal segments, but are forced to act more tactically when venturing outside them.

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