Running and Passing.

A confrontation function, “taking the struggle to the enemy’s territory, confronting, potentially disrupting, the operations at the center of the problem.”

A symbolic function which registers a collective and “deeply felt unhappiness about things as they are and the direction in which they are going.”

An educational function, “provoking questioning, exploration, juxtaposition of differing viewpoints and issues, seeking clarification and sources of commonality within difference.”

A glue function, “creating a community of trust and commitment to the pursuit of common goals; [providing] a way of coming together in a community for those who are deeply affected and concerned.”

An umbrella function, “creating a space … in which quite disparate groups can work together in pursuit of ultimately consistent and mutually reinforcing goals … a political umbrella, an organizing base for an ongoing alliance, not just a temporary coalition, of the deprived and discontented.”

An activation function, “inspiring others to greater militancy and sharper focus on common goals and specific demands … providing space for … cross discussions among supporting groups and interests, organizing … events in support of … reforms that [suggests] Occupy’s own ultimate goals of change.”

A model function, “showing, by its internal organization and methods of proceeding, that an alternative form of democracy is possible.”

Via – Peter Marcuse @ THE PURPOSE OF THE OCCUPATION MOVEMENT AND THE DANGER OF FETISHIZING SPACE through Occupy Colleges Now: Students as the New Public Intellectuals

* Paige and I are currently collaborating @ http://www.wevenevermetinreallife.com/

Unless otherwise noted, everything I post on this site is now under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Hooooray?!

“Learning to be comfortable with the idea that the circumference of a work is always larger than the boundedness of its nominated authorship.” - Raqs Media Collective : How To Be An Artist At Night. < Recommended reading

The University of Michigan’s library system has a nice guide on applying creative commons licenses to personal work.

I have self-published a photo book for my Open Books Project. The project reflected on the digitization of printed media and this book serves as a meta layer to that abstraction of container, order, and accessibility. When contrasted with the online project page and resources, the limitations and experiential qualities of the physical book become more apparent.

The book is limited to an edition of 15 with one copy donated to the Indie Photobook Library. Copies are available through my AdoramaPix account or by contacting me at matt@mattkowal.net.