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Occupy
W. J. T. Mitchell
Bernard E. Harcourt
Michael Taussig
其他書名
Three Inquiries in Disobedience
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2013-05-15
主題
Art / Popular Culture
History / Middle East / General
Law / Civil Rights
Political Science / General
Political Science / Globalization
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism
Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy
ISBN
022604260X
9780226042602
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tvMLOJo7SLcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.