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Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors’ lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown in Chicago to the many protest signs still visible worldwide.
“You break through the screen like Alice in Wonderland,†Taussig writes in the opening essay, “and now you can’t leave or do without it.†Following Taussig’s artful blend of participatory ethnography and poetic meditation on Zuccotti Park, political and legal scholar Harcourt examines the crucial difference between civil and political disobedience. He shows how by effecting the latter—by rejecting the very discourse and strategy of politics—Occupy Wall Street protestors enacted a radical new form of protest. Finally, media critic and theorist Mitchell surveys the global circulation of Occupy images across mass and social media and looks at contemporary works by artists such as Antony Gormley and how they engage the body politic, ultimately examining the use of empty space itself as a revolutionary monument.
Occupy stands not as a primer on or an authoritative account of 2011’s revolutions, but as a snapshot, a second draft of history, beyond journalism and the polemics of the moment—an occupation itself.
Read Occupy Three Inquiries in Disobedience TRIOS W J T Mitchell Bernard E Harcourt Michael Taussig Books
"Thoughtful, imaginative reporting on and analysis of the Occupy movrment. Each author is a master of their differing fields, and the combined power of their three unique visions is illuminating and inspiring."
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Occupy Three Inquiries in Disobedience TRIOS W J T Mitchell Bernard E Harcourt Michael Taussig Books Reviews
- Mic Taussig (Anthropology, Columbia Univ.) embedded himself in the Occupy Wall St. movement in fall 2011 at the invitation of former students & discovered new forms of political disobedience quickly crushed by Mayor Bloomberg & the NYPD. Harcourt (Univ. of Chicago Law School) & Mitchell (Editor, 'Critical Inquiry') connect the OWS movement with the Arab Reawakening ('Arab Spring') of 2011 & other forms of protest that go beyond civil disobedience to call into question neo-capitialism's political economic system of global domination. If you have given up hope in resistance to 'the new world order,' this book will inspire 'hope against hope' in our times when so many are discovering that neo-capitalism is the mask of new forms of oligarchy that undermine the very premises and radical promise of worker democracy.
- Thoughtful, imaginative reporting on and analysis of the Occupy movrment. Each author is a master of their differing fields, and the combined power of their three unique visions is illuminating and inspiring.
