On Union Square, and in Washington Square Park, and up near Harlem, there are players of ‘guerrilla chess’. There are all kinds of chess-masters: I pass them almost every day walking between the pagoda type structure near the mounted George Washington, and my department on East 16th street. Some of them, on folded chairs, at card [...]
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Blitz chess
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Secure in the space of occupation: notes from a student-led experiment in New York
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 90 Fifth Avenue, all city student assembly, general assembly, n17, new school, occupation, occupy, Occupy Wall Street, safer space, security, student occupation, zuccotti virus has spread on January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Secure in the space of occupation: notes from a student-led experiment in New York I was involved in the occupation of the New School student study centre at 90, FifthAvenue, just off Manhattan’s Union Square, and its regrettable degeneration is the basis for this reflection. This piece did not come naturally to me. The thinking [...]
Hannah Arendt’s idea of civil disobedience as revolution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anticapitalism, Arendt, capitalism, civil disobedience, direct action, eutopia, Hannah Arendt, heterotopia, liberal democracy, liberalism, politics, promising, revolution, state repression, utopia on December 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Hi blog! I’ve been silent and busy writing final papers. Here is the first of the three. First, here are the initialisms I used to abbreviate works by Hannah Arendt: OT: The Origins of Totalitarianism, Harvest editionCD: ‘On Civil Disobedience’, second essay in Crises of the Republic, Harvest, Harcourt, 1972.OV: ‘On Violence’, third essay [...]
N17
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bloomberg, day of action, liberty plaza, n17, new school occupation, new york city, occupy, Occupy Wall Street, ows, protest, zuccotti park on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick, blood-shot, feverish dispatch from a member of that contingent which Herman Cain – to my delight – has today declared is ‘trying to destroy America’. At 7am today, we massed outside the stripped and barricaded waste-land that had been the cornucopian ‘Liberty Plaza’ only a few days prior. Mayor Bloomberg, I presume, [...]
Marianne LeNabat’s call-out towards today’s New School OWS General Assembly — #occupywallstreet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged http://newschoolga.com, New School GA, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallstreet, ows, the New School on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I attended the OWS General Assembly of the New School. I joined the Platform working-group, which is moving towards formulating proposals and grievances that express – or found a platform for – a student/faculty voice within Occupy Wall Street as a movement. I liked Marianna LeNabat’s call-out so much. She has agreed for me [...]
Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day: a short response to the Mabou Mines production starring Ruth Maleczech
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1st Irish 2011, Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce, Lucia's Chapters, Mabou Mines, NYC, Ruth Maleczech, Sharon Fogarty, theater, theatre, Ulysses on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This was a play devoted to the daughter of Joyce and Barnacle, the one-time lover of Beckett and fifty-years’ inhabitant of sanatoriums and psychiatric institutions. The dancer, skillful illuminator, Irish-Italian, free-love Parisian, a baby named by her father for light. Her Wikipedia entry includes a mesmerising portrait of her, dancing in Paris in 1929. Sharon [...]
OXFORD RADICAL FORUM
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Please check out the PDFs of Oxford Radical Flyers I’ve made (slap-dashly) here: GENERAL PROVISIONAL O.R.F. timetable : provisional orf timetable flyer THURSDAY 19/05 sex-positive sex work session: SEX WORK FLYER SUNDAY 22/05 FILM SCREENING: madchen in uniform poster TIMETABLE What are we selling and what’s for sale? The IUSW and ECP discuss sex work [...]
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- Those speculating were huddled by the auctioneer's desk trying to haggle over crisis-stricken families' houses amid the beautiful din #o4o ~ 2 weeks ago
- Waiting now for nine arrestees at today's o4o sing-along-auction-blockade to be released at (cont) http://t.co/6gl6SUiL ~ 2 weeks ago
- #o4o action in Brooklyn Supreme Court kicked off just now, to resist banks' foreclosing on people's (cont) http://t.co/80aPmWLO ~ 2 weeks ago
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