#Final Week
Super sad this class is over. In many ways I feel as though this class was building to the end that it did with Autonomous. This last section of readings showed how much power the ordinary citizen has. The fact that the culminating powers of Anonymous came together to protest Scientology like stated in the reading by Gabriella Coleman. That solidified for me a least,that the only power we lack is the power we give away. These ddos attacks on Rutgers showed me in real time how much my school life revolved around computers. I see the ddos attack as someone protesting something they do not like about Rutgers but that doesn't really matter. The hacker made the Rutgers community stop, and took everyone out of their normal routine. Yes, it would have been easier with out the attack but I don't believe everything that is easy is good or helpful. Anonymous is neither good nor bad it is not that simple. But the fact that Anonymous is not merely a online force or a picket line makes Anonymous poetic. Anonymous is a fluid force that seamlessly pulls the power of but online and offline atmospheres.