[-empyre-] Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything?

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just appreciating you micha. thank you for this.

-----Original Message-----
>From: micha cardenas / azdel slade <azdelslade at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 18, 2009 2:24 AM
>To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
>Subject: [-empyre-] Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything?
>
>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...
>
>
>-- 
>micha cárdenas / azdel slade
>
>Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net
>Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net
>
>blog: http://transreal.org
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