This talk explores the politics that shape visual representations of nature, strategies for presenting scientific fact, and the responsibility of cultural institutions to respond to the climate crisis....
Collectives concerned with fossil fuels, labor, and decolonization are deploying institutions as targets and resources for radical political practice....
Instead of treating the Democratic Party as some kind of authority with the power to co-opt our message, we should treat it like any street or park and occupy it....
"Neutrality is a political category, one that hides from view the alternatives against which it is defined." Op-ed in The Guardian by members of Not An Alternative. ...
Occupy was powerful not because of its consensus decision-making processes but because of its participants’ collective commitment to a shared idea....
Many of us long dreamed of creating a political form (a common) that could be adopted and adapted, that would circulate and inspire, in a protean, expressive, horizontal fashion. We imagined a politics capable of exceeding the confines of issues and identities. With Occupy, we...
Debates over demands, tactics, and the ninety-nine percent have featured prominently in Occupy Wall Street since the movement’s inception. Underpinning these debates is the question of representation. What does the movement represent and to whom?...
The fantasy of participation is a powerful one, postulating, as it does, the invitation and inclusion of everyone, everywhere....