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<title>Occupying Wall Street: Places and Spaces of Political Action  : Responses</title>
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<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/occupy-wall-street-places-and-spaces-of-political-action/35938/</link>
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<dc:date>2012-09-19T08:18:18-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Occupying Wall Street: Places and Spaces of Political Action "]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[spaces, places... and flows as well it would seem. OWS set themselves down on the physical wall st.. and maybe many of them didn't realize that it's just a husk of where the people they are protesting against used to work (since finance left physical space to join a world of networks and flows)... but actually they did exactly the right thing.. reasserting fixed space and place against the liquification of the world that finance had helped create... they rightly saw that the abandonment of physical space and even more so 'place' was a weakness.. it left this open area for them to exploit by doing the opposite of 'flowing', just sitting down and 'occupying', denying the motion and circulation that has always been at the heart of capitalism and why it is so good at quickly creating and destroying wealth. If we were living in the age of 'liquid modernity' as Zygmunt Bauman pondered.. perhaps now we are seeing a rebellion of the fixed and the immobile--- at least I would like to think this... but looking at OWS and what happened after they were ejected from zucotti... they too began to see the power of existing in networks/flows.... fortunately they have maintained the focus on physical space and the connection to local 'place' as well... I think this signals that we are in an era of hybridity of the liquid, seemingly non-spatial stuff and the fixed localized place-based stuff... this hybridity... the ability to switch between the two modes and use them together is very powerful. This article emphasized for me how much OWS is a liquid, mobile network at the same time as they are hyperlocal, encamped, and immobile.]]></description>
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	<dc:date>2012-09-19T08:18:18-05:00</dc:date>
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