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Ekstasis: #Occupy as Live Action Role-Playing

ekstasis:

Joanne McNeil at Rhizome opened her post about #OWS with this: “On a quiet night, Zuccotti Park feels more like a LARP than a demonstration. Everyone deep in character with a specific task…” We have knowledge, but nothing to do with it; skills, but never opportunities to use them; time, energy and no way to put them to productive use. Our surplus is a virtual one, so we put it to virtual use.

…[and then some other things]

There’s maybe something about privilege exposed by this description, too, which speaks to criticism of occupy’s non-representation of certain groups. I don’t know what to say about it here, except that it’s really awesome when one post encapsulates several separate strains that I follow on tumblr that didn’t seem like they talk to each other much even when they ought to.

  1. iamdanw reblogged this from ekstasis
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  3. semperidem reblogged this from nothing2c and added:
    Totally awesome.
  4. nothing2c said: I love this article.
  5. nothing2c reblogged this from ekstasis and added:
    includes Bruce Stirling.
  6. smarterthanyou reblogged this from ekstasis and added:
    something about privilege exposed...this description, too, which speaks
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