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Hence, they emphasize that “those whoare against\"Empire's exploita tion and domination \"must also continually attempt to construct a new bod and a new life.\"20Communicative capitalism facilitates and incites these attempt employing ever-innovative upgrades to ensure not just that the attempts continu but that they accelerate. Hardt and Negri acknowledge that the methods of an thropological exodus are the methods of Empire. But they don't accept that thei response is also Empire's: do more, go further, radicalize, create something nev make tools into prostheses, migrate and mutate into information technologies They write, “The will to be against really needs a body that is completely incapa ble of submitting to command.\"21 An undisciplined body incapable of submissior is a body of immediacy and enjoyment, driven to move from image to image intensity to intensity. Lacking discipline, how can it resist, how can it form a wi atall? Far from constructing something new, such a body forecloses the possibilit and hope of self-governance.\n\nNetworked media in the society of control amplify the challenge that post Fordism poses to collective identity. Yes, they enable people to sign petitions. Ye they enable people to give money. Yes, they enable people to express their opin ions. Yes, Obama had like a million Facebook friends. But these particular motions c clicking and linking do not produce symbolic identities; they are ways that Iex press myself—just like shopping, checking my friends' updates, or following tab loid news at TMZ.com. I may imagine others like me, a virtual local, but this loca remains one of those like me, my link list or followers, those who fit my demo graphic profile, my user habits. I don't have to posit a collective of others, other with whom I might need to cooperate or struggle, to whom I might be obliged others who might place demandson me. The instant connection of networke association allows me to move on as soon as I am a little uncomfortable, a little pu out. Petitions, social networkgroups (the one on Facebook that aims to get a mil lion people to say they oppose capitalism has 24,672 members), blogs—they ar the political equivalent of just-in-time production, quick responses circulating a contributions to the flows of communicative capitalism. In her compelling analy sis of flash mobs, Cayley Sorochan takes the argument even further. Counterin enthusiastic appropriations of flash mobs as new instances of democratic engage ment, Sorochan presents them as instances of the“fetishizing of pure participatio removed from any meaningful political project.\"She concludes, “Hopes that flas mobs might represent a future form of political organization reflect a desire for a politics of convenience where getting together with others is easy and does not involve conflict, commitment and struggle.\"22 In the circuits of communicative capitalism, convenience trumps commitment.\n\n138\n\nInterrogating Modes of Digital Labor","previous_page":137,"next_page":139}