Collective Ornament

Digital technology has altered the concept of "the crowd" and multiplied the number and total area of communication surfaces similarly to the "explosion of surfaces" in the Weimar Republic. When facing the attempts of manipulation carried out by organized trolls, the perplexity and defenselessness digital communities experience echo the surprise caused by the political orator traveling by airplane and reaching tens of thousands of people by means of electro-acoustic technology and radio broadcasts in the previous century. The advantage stemming from the surprise has influenced economic processes and determined elections ever since.