"The Polis Is Oneself:" The Occupy Movement as a Site of Public Pedagogy
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https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2014.i3.693Keywords:
American studies, Occupy Wall StreetAbstract
We have come to Wall Street as refugees from this native dreamland, seeking asylum in the actual. That is what we seek to occupy. We seek to rediscover and reclaim the world (…) What do we want from Wall Street? Nothing, because it has nothing to offer us. We wouldn’t be here if Wall Street fed off itself; we are here because it is feeding off everyone. It is sustaining the phantoms and ghosts we have always known and whose significance we now understand. We have come here to vanish those ghosts; to assert our real selves and lives; to build genuine relationships with each other and the world; and to remind ourselves that another path is possible. If the phantoms of Wall Street are confused by our presence in their dream, so much the better. It is time that the unreal be exposed for what it is. (Communiqué 1)References
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Roos, Jerome. “How Occupy Reinvented the Language of Democracy.” Roarmag 17 September 2013. Last visited 21/03/2014.
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