Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

"OWS had a justifiable concern that any ... affiliation would inevitably lead to the seven stages of political futility: cooptation, division, dilution, pacification, neutralization, disappointment and betrayal. Because of these concerns, what one sees coming out of the Occupy movement is not an exercise of politics defined by the normal terms and conditions of any conventional political science."

#MarkVanProyen, 2016

https://www.thesilo.ca/the-metapolitics-of-burning-man-fighting-the-lie-of-the-normal-art-economy/

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#PoliticalScience#Occupy#OWS
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

"Rather, it operates as an example of what Alain Badiou has called a Metapolitics, that is, a strategic restaging of the ethical grounds by which political matters are imagined, understood, debated and acted upon. According to Badiou, Metapolitics is a form of 'Resistance by Logic'.”

#MarkVanProyen, 2016

https://www.thesilo.ca/the-metapolitics-of-burning-man-fighting-the-lie-of-the-normal-art-economy/

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

It has accomplished this by staging a theatrical moment that calls attention to the withering state of the commons, that being the place of democratic co-existence and rational debate where all citizens can freely enter and exist regardless of their inability to rent media time."

#MarkVanProyen, 2016

https://www.thesilo.ca/the-metapolitics-of-burning-man-fighting-the-lie-of-the-normal-art-economy/

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

"And let there be no mistake: in the second decade of the twenty-first century, social media has become the new commons, needing only a shared event to galvanize its attention to the point of putting a wide-ranging discourse about political priorities into play on a vast and unregulated scale. Occupy Wall Street is one such event, one whose time has clearly come."

#MarkVanProyen, 2016

https://www.thesilo.ca/the-metapolitics-of-burning-man-fighting-the-lie-of-the-normal-art-economy/

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