His final words (“Between Light and Shadow”) Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos begins with: “Good evening, afternoon, or morning, whichever it may be in your geography, time, and way of being. Good very early morning.” I see this approach to time and space as crucial for the digital Zapatista. In their article “Digital Zapatistas” Jill Lane and Ricardo Dominguez ask:“Can a collective social body materialize – make itself felt, register its effects – in electronic space? ” (p.131) I would like to add the component of time to this question. Through the constant repetition of utterances such as “once there was a time when time wasn’t measured” and “at that time, time didn’t exist” in “Our Word Is Our Weapon” by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, I am again reminded of the hegemony of constructed (metric) time. “(…) constituting presence in digital space that is both collective and politicized (…)” and out of time; timeless. “You can kill individuals, Marcos recognizes in his final speech, but you can’t kill an idea.” The embodied idea can float in cyberspace and cybertime, landscapes without beginning or end, background or foreground. Since there is no pulse or meter you can dance to the silence inside you, like the gods, and therefore listen and dance through the others; through the we. (Our word is our weapon)
I dance we.
We dance we.