The Occupied Wall Street Journal, Nos. 1-2 (2011) [English/Spanish]

“Occupy Wall Street is the beginning of a whole new kind of democracy: a bottom-up people’s democracy led by the 99%. It is a bold vision for the future that is beginning to inspire the nation. However, to pull it off, we’re going to need a robust people’s media unbeholden to corporate money. If we want people’s democracy then we’ve got to build a people’s media — the two are inseparable.

We want to be the people’s media. Our first project is The Occupy Wall Street Journal, a four-page broadsheet newspaper with an ambitious print run of 50,000. It’s aimed at the general public. The idea is to explain what the protest is about and profile different people who have joined and why they joined. We will explain the issues involved and how the general assembly process operates at Liberty Plaza. It will also offer resources and ways to join. The emphasis will be on quality content, design, photography and artwork that uses incisive humor to make it a lively read.

Future projects include longer editions of the newspaper, bold stickers, edgy posters, colorful palm cards and inspiring flyers.

This project is a volunteer effort: every penny you donate will go directly to printing and distribution.

Occupy Wall Street Media is not the “official” media of the occupation — there is no official media! This is one attempt by a group of journalists who support the occupation to offer a way for the general public to hear the stories, perspectives and ideas from inside the movement. We think the more voices, ideas and media the better.” (from project’s Kickstarter page)

authors

commentary on Issue 2 (Daryl Lang, BreakingCopy.com)
commentary on Issue 1 (Daryl Lang, BreakingCopy.com)

Issue 1, published in early October 2011, 4 pages
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Issue 2, published on 8 October 2011, 4 pages
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Social Text journal dossier: Going Into Debt (2011)

This dossier on debt draws from conversations among the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture about the cultural meanings of debt in relation to the histories of migration, nation-building and state violence, to discourses around nature and intellectual exchange, as well as to the narrative structures that construct and reframe the meanings of debt in daily life.

Contributors: Sigma Colón, Michael Denning, Amina El-Annan, Andrew Hannon, Eli Jelly-Schapiro, Hong Liang, Monica Muñoz Martinez, and Van Truong, with responses by David Graeber and Richard Dienst.

Published by Social Text Collective, New York, in September 2011

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Graham Harman: Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making (2011)

Quentin Meillassoux has been described as the most rapidly prominent French philosopher in the Anglophone world since Jacques Derrida in the 1960s. With the publication of After Finitude (2006), this daring protege of Alain Badiou became one of the world’s most visible younger thinkers.

In this book, his fellow Speculative Realist, Graham Harman, assesses Meillassoux’s publications in English so far. Also included are an insightful interview with Meillassoux and first-time translations of excerpts from L’Inexistence divine (The Divine Inexistence), his famous but still unpublished major book.

Publisher Edinburgh University Press, July 2011
Speculative Realism series
ISBN 0748640800, 9780748640805
240 pages

publisher
google books

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