Techno-libertarianism, the Zapatistas and Rhizomatic Networks

by Jason Lubyk Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001 at 1:12 AM
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The connection between techno-libertarianism, the Zapatistas and Al-Qaeda

Considering the placement of their respective ideological products on the political spectrum, Mexican revolutionaries the Zapatista's (wearing costumes as cool as Slipknot's or Gwar's), whose frontman Subcomandante Marcos' songs of freedom from Neo-Liberalism has gained a swooning fan base of leftist intelligentsia worldwide; and '90s Wired magazine-style capitalist techno-libertarianism -- the founding faith of the dot-bomb economy, boostered by the likes of right-wing former-BMO Congress Newt Gingrich -- apparently have little in common, apart from their mutual enmity.

But post-modern, memetically-spliced, political Frankenideologies don

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