"More than anything else, more than human beings coming out to the square, what "moved" in the dissident movement were texts." (p. 234)
That texts, rather than physical organization or protests, were key to the dissident movement is apparent from an early point in this history.
But texts played multiple roles: they shared information, of course, but they were also a means of connection. They can also be understood as a reflection of the ethos of the movement, of its aspirations toward anti-hierarchical, horizontal relationships.
This means that every stage of the text, from creation to reading to reproduction, there's something more happening than "just" the passing of information.
Trevor Burrows
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