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Chapter 4 concerns "realtime resistance" the manner in which immediacy has transformed protest in the early 21st century, just as it has thought and control. In particular, we consider examples from the occupation movement that demonstrate how temporally oriented, tactico-strategic forms of resistance have increasingly overtaken previous dichotomies of strategy vs. tactics. The primary task, these examples suggest, is neither that of accepting immediacy by conforming to the imperatives of accelerationism, nor that of resisting it through decelerationist refusal, but instead affirming an ethos of realtime resistance, the collective deployment of speeds such that, in Deleuze's words, a singularity or a collectivity becomes "the master of [its] speeds."

DOI: 10.1057/9781137275592_4

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