fw: A Eulogy for #Occupy
A Eulogy for #Occupy
"[Editor's Note: In the fall of 2011, Wired hired writer Quinn Norton to embed with the activists in the Occupy Wall Street movement and report back on what she witnessed. Throughout the past year, Norton filed a number of stories about the people behind the movement, the cops sent out to police them, and the clashes that ensued as a result. Now, Norton looks back on the year of Occupy.]"
Een link naar derden, ik weet het. Vond het evengoed de moeite van het overdenken waard, een zeker -- bewust? -- pathos daargelaten:
Via http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/ : A Eulogy for #Occupy, by Quinn Norton, Wired, 12.12.12, http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/all/.
"... It’s the job of a media to tell the truth to its society, but Occupy’s homegrown media refused to tell itself the truth about what was going wrong in the camps. That let the arbiters of truth become a few young men who figured out how to stream video from their cellphones. The livestreamers got drunk off their modicum of fame, behaving as tiny entitled prophets to the movement. Their ethics were incoherent, what they filmed was arbitrary, but they mistook randomness for truth. They had just discovered documenting events, and thousands of people flocked to see them do it. But without any traditions of narrative, they didn’t see their own commentary enter the story, how every shot and angle and word overlaid was editorial.
There was no critique in Occupy, no accountability. At first it didn’t matter, but as life grew messy and complicated, its absence became terrible. There wasn’t even a way to conceive of critique, as if the language had no words to describe the movement’s faults to itself. There was at times explicit gagging of Occupy’s media teams by the camp GA, to prevent anything that could be used to damage the movement from reaching the wider media. Self-censorship plagued those who weren’t gagged, because everyone was afraid of retaliation. No one talked about the systemic and growing abuses in the camps, or the increasingly poisonous GAs. ..."
Verder lezen op http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/all/ .
Een eerder stuk op Globalinfo.nl, uit Klasse!, er is hier meen ik wel eerder naar gelinkt: "Occupy bijzetten in het museum der mislukte bewegingen?", http://www.globalinfo.nl/Achtergrond/occupy-bijzetten-in-het-museum-der-... .