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- Penn State University Press
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- Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University.
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- 1527-2079
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Abstract
ABSTRACT: This article considers Michel Foucault’s theories of ethical speech and militant life in the context of Occupy Wall Street’s encampments in Zuccotti Park. Focusing on the encampments and the production and circulation of resources to meet bodily needs, the article concludes that occupation was a self-inflicted form of precarity as well as an extension of an already existing vulnerability, a living that is at once a form of social death. I read the occupations as a mode of militant life, which is to say, that which enacts precarity while at the same time transforming it into the object of radical speech.
Journal
Philosophy and Rhetoric – Penn State University Press
Published: May 18, 2015