Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy, and Resistance After Occupy Wall Street

by Jason M. Adams

While secondary texts on Paul Virilio typically see no way out of the tempo- and techno-dystopia he articulates, Occupy Time engages the events of Occupy Wall Street to fix attention on what such readings circumvent: Virilio's elusive theory of resistance.

131 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Jacob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jason Adams sets forth to position a precondition of revolutionary thinking: kairopolitics or realtime resistance. Using the concept of the dionysian yes (which he explores in other texts) and the ideas of movement and time in Virilio, he suggests that events around the occupy movement signal a change in resistance strategy. The ability of ubiquitous communication allows a shift in how to move and hide and reposition in ways that are rhizomatic. But, these movements also risk being re-territorialized into the capitalist machine. To solve this, he suggests that a solution must be virtual (in the Deleuzian sense), and not merely actual (easily commodified). That, the institution of a metaconsensus which shifts towards a kariopolitical movement (with Agamben’s idea as movement as verb, not noun) which takes a diagonal or dionysian Virilian position is necessary for producing realtime resistance as a precondition for realtime revolution.

[River · Rating 1 out of 5]

A bunch of overly dense academic rambling with little of value to be gained. It certainly makes all the right references and I'm sure looks good on a CV at academic conferences, but it's actual value is pretty minimal.