In late June of this election year, a short YouTube video entitled “Beyond Obama” rocked the political media and blogosphere.More…
OccupyMovement
Our inaugural digital forum on the Occupy Movement features critical essays by Craig Calhoun, Michael Kennedy, Saskia Sassen and a number of other leading scholars, ethnographic dispatches from multiple sites of occupation and ongoing activism, and a curated digest of perspectives on Occupy that have appeared on other sites and in other publications.
Occupy’s Expressive Impulse
Matthew Noah Smith has written a most cogent critique of Occupy’s current direction—its prime direction, anyway. I agree with almostMore…
Reflections on Occupy’s May Day: All Play Doesn’t Work
Thousands participated in the 2012 May Day events spearheaded by people who identify themselves as part of Occupy Wall Street.More…
| March 14, 2012
Occupy Ethnography: Reflections on Studying the Movement
Winter has seen Occupy Wall Street shift gears. Meetings have moved indoors, and the movement is now more a networkMore…
| March 9, 2012
Were March 1st Demonstrators Occupy’s Comeback Kids?
It’s been a long, cold winter and people are wondering, “Is Occupy still going?” It is. But how and whereMore…
| February 6, 2012
Conference-calling across the Occupy Rhizome
As Occupy camps spread around Southern California in early October, a small group of occupiers located at City Hall inMore…
| January 25, 2012
Occupy Philosophy!
Smack in the middle of the holidays, on a Wednesday night in very late December, about 150 people—philosophy professors andMore…
| January 24, 2012
Trashing the Script
In the spring of 1992, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping toured southern China. This was the trip that furthered the opening of China’s state-run More…
