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"Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience" - Reviewed by Ryan Watson

At InVisible Culture there is a review by Ryan Watson on the book “Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience” that consists of three different views on the Occupy movement. (Namely by Bernard Harcourt, W.J.T. Mitchell, and Michael Taussig.)

The introduction reads as follows:

How does one properly theorize and historicize a movement like Occupy that is inherently shape-shifting, leaderless, intimately tied to specific contexts and places, and still evolving? In Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience, three scholars from different disciplines, Bernard Harcourt (Law/Political Science), W.J.T. Mitchell (Visual Studies), and Michael Taussig (Anthropology), contribute to an emerging discourse about the role that Occupy might play as both a tactic and metonym for an inchoate type of political refusal—a form of “disobedience” that signals a new way of challenging entrenched forms of power. The text, comprising three interlinked essays, is what Mitchell refers to as a “stab at a second draft” of history that moves from the specificity of events in Zuccotti Park in the fall of 2011 to more general thoughts on the concept of occupation and the possibilities of revolutionary change.

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