A Movement Without Demands?

Re-published from possible-futures.org, Tuesday 3 January 2012. By Marco Deseriis and Jodi Dean The question of demands infused the initial weeks and months of Occupy Wall Street with the endless opening of desire. Nearly unbearable, the absence of demands concentrated interest, fear, expectation, and hope in the movement. What did they want? What could they want? Commentators have […]

Occupy Wall Street is stepping in where government failed

The following text is reposted from Complex Systems and Occupy Wall Street by Yaneer Bar-Yam of the New England Complex Systems Institute. I am impressed by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and its objectives. As the head of an institute whose work is to bring to light central issues at stake nationally and globally, I would like […]