onto on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:22:21 +0100 (CET) |
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
<nettime> Exiled in NYU |
Exiled in NYU: A communiqué from within the NYU occupation At the dawn of the New School occupation last December, we wrote, ?This is only the beginning.? We weren?t joking. We are now occupying the halls of NYU alongside their students. With our bodies and barricades, we continue to manifest ourselves as a force of interruption against the enforced passivity of the university. This occupation arises at a time of economic turmoil. The current crisis of capital is no fluke; it is the result of the real social conditions in which we live. NYU, one of the largest property owners in New York City, is a clear perpetrator of the misery everyone now feels. It has no alibi, only vulnerabilities. >From the insurrection in Greece to the revolts of Eastern Europe, from the university occupations across England to the general uprising in Oakland, something is in air. We can?t name it, but we can all feel it. Uncompromising, our power is growing. What has started as a singular strike against the structure of NYU?s form of domination will become a strike against the general logic of domination. When we occupy spaces and liberate their use, we appropriate for ourselves the means of our very existence. We find each other here and now, in the midst of conflict and crisis, overturning every role we?re given, annulling every attempt to reconcile. This is how we learn. This is how we fight. In Exile, Students of the New School Feb 19th, 2009 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org