scholarly journals AN OCCUPIED CHURCH?: READING THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT ECCLESIOLOGICALLY IN CONVERSATION WITH NEW MONASTICS

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Gregory P. Van Buskirk
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Practice ◽  
Identity Constitution ◽  
The Church

The church needs to challenge itself about its identity, constitution, and mission, because out of necessity this involves the world and the events that unfold in it. Thus, sociological, political, and economic issues have ecclesiological components and consequences that are practically tautological, including the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. The question thus moves from whether the Church is called to critical reflection on OWS to how that critical reflection should occur. The purpose of this article is to point out the specific practice of the OWS movement – ​​the “sign” – to be considered through an ecclesiological lens. The method used is from an ecclesiological lens with a new monastic. The results of this research are firstly, the church must actively and responsibly inculcate non-violent practices, communitarian economy, and embody space and place, while at the same time joining forces with non-ecclesiastical organizations that support these practices. similar. Second, by whom - and by whom - the Church (as a very different polis) must always point beyond itself to what is its foundation and fulfillment. As long as the Church faithfully responds to this call, the Kingdom will be in our midst.

Governance: Democracy All the Way Down

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Prefigurative Politics

This chapter examines indymedia's multilayered, transnational application of direct democracy, which in many ways anticipates and sets the stage for Occupy Wall Street. It focuses on the ways that democracy is understood and enacted by indymedia activists—from the development of an open media system where anyone can speak (democratizing the media), to the preference for consensus-based decision making (democratic governance), and the belief that activists must develop the structures, processes, and relationships within the movement that they aim to achieve in the world (prefigurative politics). Seen from this vantage, for indymedia activists democracy is multivalent, standing in as the end goal of a new society, a revolutionary tool to remake that society, and the everyday practice that allows for innovation and new forms of collective power.

Global Insurgencies since 1968

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
George Katsiaficas
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Material Force ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Abstract In my view, the global movement’s capacity for synchronous international coordination after 1968 has grown by leaps and bounds. Each wave builds upon its predecessors: from the disarmament movement of the early 1980s, to the wave of Asian uprisings from 1986-1992, Eastern European insurgencies, the alterglobalization wave from the Zapatistas to Seattle, and most recently in the concurrent Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, Indignados, and Greek anarchists, history becomes increasingly endowed with direct action by self-conscious human beings. Our collective intelligence is becoming an ever-more powerful material force. Recent global waves have focused on transformation of the world economic system, not simply on opposing its weapons, wars, debt crises, and ecological devastation. Today there are more people consciously opposed to international capitalism than ever before in history, a potential for action that has yet to be fully realized.

Dude, Where's My Job?

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 1006-1009
Author(s):  
Walter Benn Michaels
Keyword(s):  
Campaign Finance ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

The question of what occupy wall street wants has been a hard one to answer—despite or because of Adbuster's founding call for “one” “simple” and “uncomplicated” “demand.” This is partly because the Adbuster candidate, “Democracy without Corporatocracy,” was a little vague and partly because the many specific demands that followed it—from reinstating Glass-Steagall to reforming campaign finance to establishing an “Office of the Citizen”—didn't really capture the radical spirit of the movement. What emerged as most characteristic of OWS was something like a critique of the very idea of demands: we refuse to make any because we refuse to acknowledge that anyone has the authority to accede to them, or we will make only demands that cannot be met. But this strategy, not unlike the mechanism of occupation itself, has obvious limitations: going someplace just because you're not supposed to be there and asking for something only as long as you can't possibly get it doesn't look like a recipe for changing the world.

scholarly journals Die kerk onderweg na die een en twintigste eeu: 'n Kritiese besinning oor kerkwees in 'n veranderende konteks in Suid-Afrika

1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J.S Steenkamp
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
First Century ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Underlying Reality ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Doors

The church on its way to the twenty-first century:  A critical reflection on being church in a changing context in South Africa. Reflection on the underlying reality of the church in South Africa on its way to the twenty-first century should take into account the  dynamic nature of a church. Being a church presupposes the church judging its situation before God. Transition to a new context accentuates the line between the world and the church, since Christianity has finally reached the stage where the world confronts each and every believer as he or she emerges from the doors of his or her church or home. To be a church in this changing context has profound implications for the life and commitment of both the church and the individual believer.

scholarly journals The Threat of Western Universalism

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Chad Tallman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Horizontal Structure ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Diverse Cultures

This article examines the concept of world unity from the time of enlightenment to the present age. It asserts that the enlightenment conception is responsible for the perversion of human nature since it elevates human reason over human emotion which has resulted into a narrow understanding of the world and the belief that science could guarantee peace. The paper debates the concepts of space and place in relation to westernization as a form of universalism. It shows how universalism is linked to space with no respect for diverse cultures according to geographical origins as the case is for localism which is rooted in place. It analyses the United States’ pursuit for market unity, a strategy which is propagated but with the ill intentions of maintaining her international superiority. The market unity project is indeed, an enemy of democracy and a threat to not only cultural diversity, but also to all life on earth. In this paper I therefore suggest that, contrary to the critics, difference and the horizontal structure of the Occupy Wall Street movement is advantageous. The fact that people are organizing in protests in spite of their diverse cultures is, of course, an act of solidarity and unity. By this they demonstrate their belief that a better world is possible and that valuing cultural diversity and difference is a prerequisite for coexistence and peace. Therefore, the main focus of this paper is to defend difference and diversity against world unity or totality or sameness.

Why Martha Rosler wants to make me buy?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Rosler ◽  
Krzysztof Pijarski
Keyword(s):  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Martha Rosler ◽  
The World

Martha Rosler in conversation with Krzysztof Pijarski, about her "Meta-Monumental Garage Sale" (2012), Occupy Wall Street and the world of art.

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