26
Feb
Occupy Campaign – 2 & 3 March 2012 / Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
31
Jan
“If we want right away to define the profile and the formula of our future society, without criticizing all the forms of political power that are exerted in our society, there is a risk that they reconstitute themselves even through such an apparently noble form as anarchist-unionism.”
22
Jan
It is with irony that freedom begins – Victor Hugo
20
Jan
Moving from a substantive understanding of “the institution” as specific places, organizations,
and individuals to a conception of it as a social field, the question of what is inside and what is outside
becomes much more complex.
It’s not a question of being against the institution: We are the institution.
It’s a question of what kind of institution we are, what kind of values we institutionalize,
what forms of practice we reward, and what kinds of rewards we aspire to.”
Andrea Fraser
19
Jan
Let’s reedit them. Rebuild. Rearrange. Wreck. Articulate. Alienate. Unfreeze. Accelerate. Inhabit. Occupy.
I want you to take out your mobile phone. Open the video. Record whatever you see for a couple of seconds. No cuts. You are allowed to move around, to pan and zoom. Use effects only if they are built in. Keep doing this for one month, every day. Now stop. Listen.
Lets start with a simple proposition: what used to be work has increasingly been turned into occupation.1
This change in terminology may look trivial. In fact, almost everything changes on the way from work to occupation. The economic framework, but also its implications for space and temporality.
18
Jan
Today