Occupy this: a dialogic derive

Abstract

This dialogue is the text-based component of an evolving performative multi-media lecture. By re-reading Guy Debord\u27s The Society of the Spectacle, in relation to the global Occupy movement and the rise of social media, we ask: in what ways does the proliferation of digital imagery enable and limit this recent form of political activism? By subjectively responding to selective quotations from Debord\u27s writing, we link the triumvirate of global capitalism, public space and digital technology, producing commentary on the displacement imposed by contemporary \u27spectacular\u27 technologies, the networked \u27technical image\u27 and the politics of public space