# Tactical Media as Far Right Education Sentimentale: A Dutch Case Study [working title].

Amsterdam's "tactical media" scene of the 1990s involved the artist-run alternative television program "De Hoeksteen Live," which was broadcast on a local cable television station. Characterized by a Dutch journalist as "a chaotic and hectic program with a motley crew of artists, hackers, politicians, journalists, businessmen, neoliberals and activists [..., a] kind of celebration of the multicultural society, with lots of noise, half-working camcorders and a ramshackle Internet connection," it involved journalist Martin Bosma as a talk show host. Bosma was also involved in the production of "N5M TV" for the _Next 5 Minutes_ festival, a central network event of the Tactical Media discourse and movement of the 1990s.

In the early 2000s, Bosma re-emerged as the strategist for Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders and remains the most important politician in his faction to this day. In 2023, after Wilders' PVV became the largest party in the Dutch national elections, he became Speaker of the Dutch House of Representatives. 

This article examines the extent to which Bosma's own writing and the PVV's campaign style may have adapted media tactics from 1990s countercultures and learned from the Tactical Media movement. The characterization of Tactical Media as having grown out of the "modest goals of media artists and media activists" as "a movement that challenged everyone to produce their own media in support of their own political struggle" [by the editors of 'The Tactical Media Files'] also applies in principle to the far and extreme right and its weaponization of the Internet.

The underlying question is whether Tactical Media and similar media and hacker activist movements represented a misreading of the theory of the [in this case: DIY and decentralized] medium as message, and to what extent a proto-2000s alliance of autonomism and libertarianism was (a) actually at work, and (b) politically problematic in retrospect.