Visual Media and Culture of 'occupy'

On 15th October 2011, hundreds of anti-capitalist protestors assembled into a spectacular carnivalesque procession towards Paternoster Square; the heartland of Londonâ (TM)s banking district. Beginning with Althusserâ (TM)s concept of â ~interpellationâ (TM), this book examines Occupy LSX St Paulâ (TM)s Cathedral in relation to media spectacle. Initially focusing on arrival narratives, it asks the question: were the 15th October 2011 anti-capitalist protestors â ~hailedâ (TM) into becoming the subjects of Occupy LSX St Paulâ (TM)s Cathedral? Based on extensive ethnographic interviews and photographic data, this book demonstrates the complex ways in which Occupy LSX St Paulâ (TM)s Cathedral â ~interpolatedâ (TM) (Ashcroft 2001) and subverted media spectacle. Kairos exemplifies the longue durÃ(c)e of the art and ethics of Occupy. The bifarious dimensions of kairos emphasise an ethics of care and devotion alongside the indeterminate possibilities of the aleatory encounter. Formulated within Marxist aleatory materialism, this book explores the momentous reality of Occupy LSX St Paulâ (TM)s Cathedral. Instantiated within an extraordinary conjuncture of conflict between capital and labour, Occupy LSX St Paulâ (TM)s Cathedral manifested formidable expressions of resistance to the disembodied â ~space of flowsâ (TM); â ~timeless timesâ (TM); and the â ~real virtualitiesâ (TM) of transnational capitalist accumulation. Empirical case studies are used to engage with the extraordinary strategies that Occupy LSX St Paulâ (TM)s Cathedral politically cultivated to address: (i) the future of print news media, The Occupied Times of London; (ii) disjunctures and disruptions within the locality of the â ~space of placeâ (TM) amidst the harsh reality of neoliberal austerity measures; (iii) the harnessing of multi-modal information communication technologies as part of an imperative to unite the â ~space of placeâ (TM) with an international environmental citizenship; (iv) critically mobilising market analogues and promotional media integral to the neoliberal market reform of public sector healthcare provision and, in so doing, occupying a radical riposte to the entrepreneurial self and marketized morals of neoliberalismâ (TM)s homo economicus consumer citizen. In these and many other examples, this book argues that Occupy LSX St Paulâ (TM)s Cathedral exemplifies the possibilities of kairos as a condition and consequence of the politics, visual media and culture of new social movements.