Showing posts with label occupy Wall Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label occupy Wall Street. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Thoughts on the Purpose of the Occupy Movement

Can the purpose of Occupy as a movement be no purpose at all? I think universally, if that word can be used, it is thought that every action has some kind of purpose. Building on that premise, one of the ‘competing’ purposes for Occupy on the conceptual, symbolic and ideological level is to demonstrate against global institutions, states, markets, and hierarchical systems which cannot fit the network model experienced through technology in the everyday, and are failing to represent the population through different varieties of democratic systems (with their microfascist logics) or other fascist systems, and more specifically points to: