what was it i read recently ...?

<There is a counter tradition on the Left that has long understood that all politics, at some level, is a kind of theater. This practice continues on today, particularly in the global justice movement. "Everything is theatrical,” says David Solnit, who as founder of Art and Revolution had a role in giving the Battle in Seattle and subsequent mass mobilizations their creative flair. But the problem, as Solnit sees it, is that “traditional protest—the march, the rally, the chants—is just bad theater.">

-- The Manufacture of Dissent: What the Left Can Learn from Las Vegas
www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/3/webspecialsSet.htm