[-empyre-] Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything?

[micha cardenas / azdel slade]

Are the UC strikes and occupations viral?

http://theimaginarycommittee.wordpress.com/
http://ucstrike.com/
http://www.facebook.com/?q=#/group.php?gid=127873822709&ref=ts
http://savingucsd.ning.com
http://savingucla.ning.com/
http://www.newuniversity.org/2009/11/opinion/regents%E2%80%99-meeting-a-historic-opportunity/
http://ucop.cc

Or are they an example of the way that viral media still relies on
corporate media to get very large numbers?

At UCSD, very few students, faculty and staff that I've talked to knew
about or support the strike do. Myself and a handful of other faculty,
staff and students are striking, but is the very idea of a strike not
viral but more based in monolothic constituencies and factory models
of labor? Perhaps the spreading occupations are more viral? I wonder
about this as I start going on strike tomorrow and join actions at
UCSD...


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micha cárdenas / azdel slade

Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net
Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net

blog: http://transreal.org