Hyperlocalism

I adore poet Maggie Anderson's line:

History is one long story of what happened to us,
and its rhythms are local dialect and anecdote.

Beyond the violence of the academy, the failures of hegemonic narrative, the sweatless, bloodless, sexless sterility of Wikipedia, the quantitative perversion of sociology, psychology, and political science, Anderson's line suggests that history is of the people and their stories. At Free Speech TV, I have the opportunity to work with groups like Appalshop, Global Action Project, SCRIBE, Denver Open Media, and dozens of community cable stations. Doing this work, I witness hyperlocalism in real time. Media creates the opportunity for localisms to merge in a web of interactive revolutionary possibility as structured as flows of exploitation via capitalism. Interconnected local dialects and anecdotes create a formal, social, cultural machine capable of both maintaining and destroying oppressive systems of capitalism, government, and oppression.