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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Quick vignettes on the meaning of political events are an undertaking fraught with risks. Not least by facilitating overstatements, biases, and shortcuts, the latter both empirically and conceptually. What follows here should therefore be seen as nothing more than an offer of one way of framing an inquiry into the question of what the significance of the Occupy movement has been. It is emphatically not an attempt to cook the movement by way of reduction into an 'explanatory hotel-sauce' (taking Adorno's much loved phrase out of context here), to be poured retrospectively over events to make them analytically palatable. Rather than detracting from the diversity of experiences, modes of engagement, imaginaries, and resilience developed in very different sites and situations by people associating with, or inspired by, the 'Occupy' meme, I am simply trying to home in on one particular aspect, which, I think, may contain some hints about the continuities of the political concerns to which the 'events' side of Occupy gave voice, visibility, and exposure.
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