According to K. Fitzpatrick:... read more »

At some point on New Year’s Eve, round about the moment that Patti Smith was adapting The Who to “Occupy My Generation,” I got an idea. I would undertake a durational writing project that would reflect and engage with Occupy every day in 2012. The New Everyday becomes what’s new every day. So I have a new blog called Occupy 2012. It’s a way of saying among other things:... read more »

Just to remind people that the cluster “Occupy the Everyday” is now up and to let everyone know that it has today been updated with pieces from:

Caitlin Bruce (Northwestern) “Occupy Philadelphia: Representing Activism”—covers Occupy Philly up to 11/27 and the threatened eviction

and

Keith Miller (NYU): “Power’s Cool Use of Force” on UC Davis

joining

Khujeci Tomai: “Beyond Liberty Plaza”—OWS after the eviction

Fraylie Nord: “Occupy: the Open Body, the Public Signifier”... read more »

Look at the video. The students sit calmly, surrounded by chanting supporters. The masked perpetrator walks calmly to them and like a house painter would a wall, blasts them with pepper spray. The near serenity in his gait, in his gesture, speaks to an ease with which power asserts itself through violence. The very relaxed air is almost more chilling than the thought of the pepper spray burning the eyes.... read more »

On October 15, Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic of The New York Times, published an article with a discursive take on physical structures.  Readers were confronted with a discussion of the politics of space.  (Kimmelman calls it place, though I would contest that the difference between place and space is that the former is purely physical and the latter involves enacted discourse.)... read more »

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: OCCUPY!

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of pathological symptoms appear.”

Antonio Gramsci

The old neoliberal order is dying. The new, known so far as occupying, is underway. The pathological is everywhere: Berlusconi, Paterno, Cain…... read more »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FEWyLfLAuA

As increased medical research has demonstrated the nature of and dangers related to concussions, sports leagues have moved to protect their players from the long term health risks associated with sustained brain damage. However, as steps are taken to protect athletes from concussions, the greatest obstacle to progress may come from an unlikely source: the athletes themselves.... read more »

 While Greg Mitchell, over at the Nation, continues his solitary quest to be the man who blogs every scrap of news ever produced about Wikileaks or Julian Assange, the rest of the press seems to have more or less moved on.... read more »

This is a response to questions posed to me via Twitter by Shana Kimball, Head of Publishing Services, Outreach and Strategic Development at MPublishing, University of Michigan Library (http://lib.umich.edu/spo) She asked me in a tweet: “Curious about what you think authors should take notice of in the AAUP report? How should it change their publishing habits?” My immediate reaction was: great questions.... read more »