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We believe placing a hummer in virtually any context—particularly in contemporary American society—unnecessarily militarizes otherwise neutral, benign public spaces. It is a gross display of power and unrighteous dominion to park a Hummer somewhere that would otherwise be occupied by something considerably more pleasant: a baby carriage, a flower box brimming with geraniums, a bench for the elderly to rest their weary joints. Our contention is with the way in which ordinary, unthreatening public areas are rendered hostile and aggressive by the imposition of a vehicle as large and militaristic as a Hummer.
The best way to challenge the legitimacy of such a political act is not to counter it with an equally rigid, forceful counterstrike, but rather to perform an equivalent de-politicizing or a-politicizing gesture. Such a gesture is ideally made manifest—virtually flawlessly executed—in the form of a humping. A confrontation between an ordinary individual and the Hummer, an embodiment a number of ethically suspect forces at work, yields a fundamental, primitive tension that can only be resolved by the radical destabilization that a good humping produces. Those who see our actions merely as amorous displays toward a monolithic machine of our age are not looking closely enough. A thorough, critical observation of the Hummer-humping act goes far deeper than the pelvic thrusts noted after a cursory glance.
Our disdain for the Hummer’s role in contemporary society is not formed through the perspective of any solitary ideological lens in isolation, rather, we offer a unified position from which many disparate groups might band together to cast condemnation on the monolithic vehicle. We welcome all who peacefully and articulately challenge the legitimacy of the Hummer today, whether their motivations be politically, environmentally, or otherwise informed.
Do not, however, conflate all who belong to this perpetually growing social force and assume that our motivations are one and the same. Although we are united in a common goal to a certain degree, we maintain an acute sense of individuality—all approaching the act of the hump from a distinct point of view. We work together, but simultaneously claim the uniqueness and distinctiveness of all participants, as well as the ability to instantaneously disburse. These luxuries are all characteristics that are afforded us because of our means of dissemination: the moving image—as ephemeral and ghostly as thought and memory themselves, and cyberspace—the imagined terrain onto which we have mapped our presence—a terrain that we so dearly do not want to see marred by the tire tracks of our oppressor.
