Academic Takes On Occupy?

[palotin]

I've found a limited number of academic articles (well really blog posts) on Occupy. Do you know of any? The publication cycle for journals is so ill suited to documenting events in anything close to a satisfactory frame of time. I've read quite a bit of op-ed style pieces written by academics. I'm looking for stuff that, while perhaps not exclusively addressing their own discipline, is written in a scholarly, rather than consciously popular, language. Any examples would be most welcome. I'll throw a few I've found down below.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

You may want to look on Louis Proyect's blog. He mentions, then dissects liberal and conservative academic's take on the #Occupy movement. To be honest, I don't think you are missing much though. Academicia appear just as clueless about the movement as do other areas of the ruling class.

As far as "name" academics, check out Cornel West and Slavoj Zizek.

The nest take on the movement from an academic is this article from David Micheal Green at Hofstra. Very good article, IMHO.

http://www.regressiveantidote.net/

I would not expect much from academic journals.

[KurtFF8]

If the "Communism a New Beginning" videos are ever posted online, OWS was a reoccurring theme at that conference.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

You may want to hunt around here. Andrew Kliman and various people at CCNY are connected w/these groups, as I understand.

http://brechtforum.org/civicrm/event/info?id=12109&reset=1

http://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/economic-crisis/new-book-the-failure-of-capitalist-production.html

These guys probably have something.

http://platypus1917.org/tag/marx/

[The Douche]

Didn't (doesn't?) Platypus support US intervention in Afghanistan?

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I don't think very highly of Platypus but they do seem like an academic Marxist group which may have been close to what the OP was looking for. I do get useful info from sources I disagree with.

[The Douche]

I don't think very highly of Platypus but they do seem like an academic Marxist group which may have been close to what the OP was looking for. I do get useful info from sources I disagree with.

They certainly are an academic marxist group.


And probably future neo-cons.



I actually don't know if its true they support intervention, but I know I dislike them for some reason, and I think that is why.