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and physical fabric that makes up the city. Graffiti is part of the cityscape, informs its
readers by entertaining them or evoking familiar themes peppered with anarchist meaning,
and encourages them to consider and hopefully support anarchy. It is these qualities of
easy accessibility in familiar spaces, relevance, and inspiration that form the foundation
of the most recent, and arguably the most successful anarchist recruitment strategies.

To attract a maximum number of new people interested in anarchy, my anarchist
contact maintains humorous websites, communicates actively during networked video
games, and posts messages in various popular online chat rooms. The anarchist messages
he codes in his communications and websites lean towards libertarianism rather than
nihilism and gloss over internal ideological divisions within the anarchist ranks so as to
keep things simple and to generate curiosity. Contributing to unofficial soccer team fan
pages and broadcasting messages during various “first person shooter” online games are
especially fruitful for my consultant. At the time of this interview “Call of Duty” was the
most popular networked game. My anarchist consultant would play the game at popular
internet cafés in and around Athens and would use the game’s internal voice and text
communication capability to advertise his websites, or he would use an instant messenger
client to send links to other players. This day-to-day online strategy is focused on
incorporating local and translocal distinctly anti-state discourses into the publics with
which young people engage. He explained it is important to disseminate, or facilitate the
dissemination of, translocal as well as local anarchist discourses for two reasons: first,
these translocal discourses often address the broader socio-economic connections that
shape current local problems and concerns more authentically; second, translocal
anarchist discourses promote a sense of connection to a wider international movement.

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