On Occupy in the Media

There are many ways to consume both the raw and the mediated, but the raw is predicated on unknowing, or known unknowns, bound by a linear experience of space-time, and the mediated is predicated on understanding. It is with intention of knowing, and dominating with understanding that mainstream media approaches the raw. It utilizes the mechanical apparatus of televisual media and the structure of language to transcend and recombine space-time in order to refigure or negate the reality of a situation. By reality here, I am referring to a multiplicity of converging, conflating, coalescing, individualities, which are in their entanglement (in their intra-action) structurally un-knowable. It is precisely in the moment of assumed understanding of the other that we are able to dominate and destroy it. When capitulated through the mainstream media, whether left or right, the raw is consumed, and digested, at which point the abjection is ready for re-consumption. The mediation of the Occupy Movement is dependent on a framework of structure that presupposes it’s subject. Neglecting its multiplicity, its life, its inability to be re-inscribed, Occupy has been stereotypically produced in mainstream media, which continues to propagate myths and characterizations that surround and stifle potential threats to hegemonic ideology in a complex masking.

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