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Indignant with the Media, or, Revolt in the Media? :Between the digital and real Markets
No full textThis chapter discusses the squares' occupation movement in Greece from the viewpoint and experience of the communication and multimedia team of the Syntagma square's peoples' assembly. It does so by utilizing Castel's concept of networked society in order to highlight the different organisational structures and functioning of this movement from the previous forms of social movements, which reflected the modernist industrial modes of orgnanising. Moreover, it provides insights and analysis in how this new logics was applied or manifested in the actions and functions of the communication and multimedia team of the Syntagma square's assembly
The squares as living beings:The re-socialisation of the market-place (Agora)
No full textThis article is a testimony and self-reflection of the experience of the occupation of the Syntagma square in Athens, and of its evolution, during the summer of 2011. It provides ethnographic as well as political insights from a participants point of view, ranging from the molecular to the symbolic levels and from discourses and practices of linguistics to violence as they were debated in the squares' assemblies and other parallel processes. It's main argument is that through the act of occupation the square is recuperated and its role as an open democratic Agora (instead of a market-place - in Greek agora too) is reinstated
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