‘It's over; I've seen it on TV’: Occupy's politics beyond media spectacle

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Notes

1 O. Negt and A. Kluge, Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).

2 The ‘Pirate party’ movement in Europe, which has been the attempt to bring the avowed democratic virtues of the ‘netizenry’ (flat hierarchies, swarm intelligence, basic democratic inclusion, and collaborative attitudes) to the political establishment, is indicative for such tendencies towards naivety. Successful mobilization of a protest vote led virtual democrats almost instantly to a reality check, as careers were made, jealousies arose, intrigues emerged, and ‘openness’ had to be continuously redefined.

3 D. Hanson, ‘Wedding of the Century: Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party’, WorldNetWeekly, 04 Oct 2011, http://www.wnd.com/2011/10/351945/ (accessed December 11, 2012).

4 A. Demirovic, ‘Hegemonie und Oeffentlichkeit’, Das Argument-Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 36, no. 4/5 (1994): 675–92.

5 M. Weber ‘Understanding and Analyzing Social Movements and Alternative Globalization’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Relations, ed. P. Hayden (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), 427–42; see also M. Weber, ‘“Alter-Globalization” and Social Movements: Towards Understanding Transnational Politicization’, in Confronting Globalization: Humanity, Justice, and the Renewal of Politics, ed. P. Hayden and C. El-Ojeili (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2005), 191–207.