Imagining Life Beyond "The Economy"

[Darren]

Thought I sent this before.  Appologies if it appears twice

"What is it "to occupy"? What is this charged word that is spreading 
like wildfire and inciting us to reclaim public space? It reminds some 
of us of invasion, colonization-as in "an occupied nation." At the same 
time, the #Occupy Movement is pointing toward a different sense of the 
word: something more like a taking back, a holding of space in order to 
open it up toward new collective possibilities. From its Latin roots, 
"to occupy" can, in fact, mean to seize a space against the status quo 
and to turn it towards something new. To occupy is to construct a space 
in which we can engage in the craft-the occupation-of enacting the world 
we long for.i We need to understand and to enact "occupation" in the 
widest sense possible: to seize every single space that we possibly 
can-physical and conceptual-in which to exercise collective power and 
experiment with new forms of collective life. This is also about making 
visible the spaces that we have already occupied, the practices and 
forms of life in which we are already rooted and which we already share 
in common. Think of us as water; think of our spaces of occupation as 
the cracks into which we flow. These are the footholds from which we 
launch each new moment of creative action. " more...... 
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