Dada, Digital Poetics and Political Conservatism

One of the recurring thoughts I have regarding the articulation of a 'history' to digital poetics is as follows: by appropriating or finding formal similarities in movements like Dada or other literary Modernist groups, what does digital poetics have to say about the fact that many of these forms and techniques are directly symptomatic of the politics of the culture at that time period. The rise of Dada is a direct response to bourgeois capitalist society just as WWI was breaking out. Its anti-art mentality is response to the various colonial and capitalist ideologies fermenting in that historical time period. Hannah Hoch's early use of the collage technique is a direct attack on patriarchal conceptions of binary sexualities and gender identities. What is the the political motivation behind the use of these modernist formal techniques in digital poetics. Brian Kim Stefan's work certainly takes the political into account; however, if the general play of the 'innovation' is done merely formally, does this not valorize formal technique w/o consideration to how that technique relates to the broader society; in other words, if one is merely playing with material, formal considerations, is this not a manifestation of political conservatism? With the formal 'innovations' acting as a fantasy of liberalism and political innovation? Mere formal 'innovations' should not be mistakenly equated with political revolution or liberalism. Thoughts?