A Library for #Occupy: Part 3

By Huw Lemmey / 26 March 2012

After the Occupy Wall Street "People's Library" was brutally dismantled by the police, Paolo Mossetti of Through Europe asked some of his favourite writers, activists, and academics to help him compile a list of books that would recreate, though only virtually, the library's shelves.


Here is the third part, with contributions from Gar Alperovitz, Mike Davis, Enrico Donaggio, Ann Ferguson, Shabnam Hashmi, John Holloway, Sandro Mezzadra, Douglas Rushkoff, Felix Stalder.


The fourth part of the reading list will be online next week.

 

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I am a student at Rutgers University, and a student organizer working with Tent State University and Occupy New Brunswick. This year, inspired by the Occupy Library, our 10th annual Tent State will for the first time feature a communal library, and at the end of the week the accumulated materials will be donated to the Mountain View Program, which works to educate those institutionalized in the American Prison-Industrial complex. I hope at least some of these titles will temporarily join us in protest and go on to enlightened some needlessly impoverished minds.
 I know this is a long shot, but I have just learned the Zizek is visiting our private, sister school Princeton. If he is free at anytime next week (15th -20th) I'd bend over backwards to help accommodate. I have an enormous amount of respect for his work, and I think his ideas are a big part of a pill we'll all have to learn to swallow.
 - T.C.
Timothy Cobb / 12 April 2012 0 people think so
I am a student at Rutgers University, and a student organizer working with Tent State University and Occupy New Brunswick. This year, inspired by the Occupy Library, our 10th annual Tent State will for the first time feature a communal library, and at the end of the week the accumulated materials will be donated to the Mountain View Program, which works to educate those institutionalized in the American Prison-Industrial complex. I hope at least some of these titles will temporarily join us in protest and go on to enlightened some needlessly impoverished minds.
 I know this is a long shot, but I have just learned the Zizek is visiting our private, sister school Princeton. If he is free at anytime next week (15th -20th) I'd bend over backwards to help accommodate. I have an enormous amount of respect for his work, and I think his ideas are a big part of a pill we'll all have to learn to swallow.
 - T.C.
Timothy Cobb / 12 April 2012 0 people think so

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