ABSTRACT
With the data body, a new imaginaire emerges which threatens to shatter social life. Our reliance on electronic information to administrate every aspects of society is only matched by our general lack of control over these procedures. Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) associates this condition with a loss of sovereignty and argues for the retrieval of the body without organs. This chapter has examined the formulation of virtual resistance through the discursive analysis of several fictional performances. It has established how digital direct action has been conceived as a new form of radical practice, named 'recombinant theatre', which focuses on the recovery of digital sovereignty. This approach is also a way to further justify the relocation of socio-political dissent in the digital space — the argument being that since the domination is virtual, so should the resistance be. The playful construction of the virtual theatre as the unique sphere of direct action is fascinating.
