Liberated objects from the built environment…

The term “Semiotic Disobedience” includes a number of difference approaches to visual, actual, and verbal representation, including vandalizing, subverting, and “re-coding” certain kinds of intellectual, real, government, and private property for public use and expression. Just as civil disobedience challenges basic conceptions of political democracy by drawing attention to disenfranchised minorities, semiotic disobedience challenges notions of semiotic democracy by drawing attention to disenfranchised types of expression. If our First Amendment jurisprudence has taught us anything, it has taught us the importance of recognizing the value of symbolic dissent, even when unpopular, as a key mediating tool in integrating the marketplaces of prohibited and protected expression.