tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post6057003928339146390..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: PreOccupationDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-28844782792821179822014-02-20T13:44:53.236-08:002014-02-20T13:44:53.236-08:00For clarity's sake, I doubt anybody had you in...For clarity's sake, I doubt anybody had you in mind reading this, but it's nice to see you around.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-78328769198295795462014-02-20T12:44:36.462-08:002014-02-20T12:44:36.462-08:00For clarity's sake, note that I was never tryi...For clarity's sake, note that I was never trying to claim Occupy for anarchism. You could perhaps call me a fan of Occupy, but as a member of (un)Occupy Albuquerque, I'm specifically invested in critiquing the invocation of occupation. Summerspeakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07870660699983182559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-82208410608456081492014-02-12T18:48:13.343-08:002014-02-12T18:48:13.343-08:00Hey, Jay. If Occupy was an expression of mass disc...Hey, Jay. If Occupy was an expression of mass discontent over the fact that an ongoing unemployment crisis in which incumbent-elites were more or less uninterested because they cared more about maintaining their unjustly concentrated wealth, then the massive amplification of the powerful "99% vs 1%" slogan in the public consciousness as well as the present comparatively greater focus on unemployment and income inequality as topics of public concern (which is not to deny that false right wing framings of this concern are part of that focus, nor that ongoing obstructionism keeps effective policies like the Jobs Bill or a federal raising of the minimum wage from happening whatever the focus), both suggest reasons to reassess the now common complaint that Occupy had no significant impact. Or it seems so to me. <br /><br />I also think everybody does Occupy a disservice by judging it according to the standards of the anarchist intellectuals who seem to want to be considered its "thought leaders." Many Occupiers themselves, not only their critics, seem to understand it on terms that cannot help but diminish it in my view. I am not completely sure what you mean when you describe Occupy as "postmodern," but maybe these two points are related.<br /><br />As I said before, I think the widening Moral Mondays protests are the latest chapter in a longer struggle over democratization of which Occupy was/is also a part, so I'm not sure I even agree its slow death is not better understood as an ongoing life.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-35595819994076886082014-02-12T18:05:31.369-08:002014-02-12T18:05:31.369-08:00Jay here. I'll be honest, I never saw much po...Jay here. I'll be honest, I never saw much potential in Occupy. It seemed rather postmodern, really. The organizers, such as they were, dared not define what it was, knowing that defining it would shatter the illusion of unity. Instead they chose to keep it ephemeral, and it died a slow death as people gradually stopped believing its promise would ever be realized.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730892655991613183noreply@blogger.com