Not to speak in the language of the existing order

  Poster: Favianna Rodriguez  [culturalorganising.org]

One of the main achievements of the Occupy movement has been the opening up of new spaces of transformation, resistance and revolution, breaking the claustrophobic confines of the geography of global capital. The movement itself breaks the boundaries of accepted political terminology, opting to trouble the reigning order by speaking from a position outside of the official political discourse. From the perspective of the ruling ideology, the Occupy movement appears to lack focus and organization since it does not propose any set of ‘demands’ – that is, in the language adopted by the everyday. The point, though, is not to speak in the language of the existing order, but to change the co-ordinates of the existing order so that what appears as irrational and traumatic from its own perspective becomes, itself, the structuring principle upon which the conditions of possibility for a new politics may be given form.

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