TorsteinViddal
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Location: Oslo, Norway
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 Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:54 pm Post subject: The Occupy Movement, Lordless Communication & Svart Anal |
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This is a translation of an essay I wrote that got published in the Norwegian weekly Nytid.no this Friday Feb 3rd:
The Occupy Movement, Lordless Communication and Svart Analyse
The Occupy movement is not just your average popular movement. Could their struggle, as in the 1930s, be a battle between anarchism and fascism?
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Posted on 5 February, 2012 by Torstein Viddal
The Occupy movement is not just your average popular movement. Could their struggle, as in the 1930s, be a battle between anarchism and fascism?
- Alle tar ansvar!
Böyen Beng
The Allting as the Hub of the Occupy Movement
What defines the Occupy movement is perhaps more than anything else the rejection of the leader principle and the eternal struggle for approval. Rather than begging the oppressors for their approval, occupyers establish their own status and pride, their own media, methods and institutions. They do this without leaders, and instead the Allting (general assembly) had become their hub.
The Allting makes all the decisions and consists – as the name suggests – of all members of a community. They also choose moderators and facilitators who ensure that the conversation progresses, while all groups and persons have their say. The Occupy movement’s Allting can thus be seen as an ambitious attempt at lordless communication.
The Militarisation of the Public Sphere
In today’s Norway, as good as no public communication is lordless. For example, our King has his military troops in Afghanistan, and activists protesting this war and occupation are labeled in the public sphere as dangerous extremists. Their mobilisation videos are labeled as threat videos as Norwegian soldiers, tanks and military leaders are displayed, and the PST (security police) jails those who upload the films and spends resources on finding out whether the filmmaker had accomplices.
Increasingly, we see a militarisation of the public sphere, language and communication, and in this militarised communication, the enemy images are very simple. An anti-war protest thus becomes a bunch of hate-messages from dangerous extremists, in other words completely bad people, while the King, the soldiers and the police become totally good. There is no room for any nuances, colours or shades of grey, and in their eagerness they forget «old» laws and paragraphs, like the Constitution and the Free Speech paragraph (§100):
§100 – There should be free speech
No-one can be held legally liable for having given or received information, ideas or messages, unless it is defendable in relation to freedom of speech and its motivation of the search for truth, democracy and the free forming of opinions of the individual. The legal liability should be written in law.
Frank statements about the government of the state and about any thing whatsoever are allowed for everyone. There can only be established such clearly defined limits to this right where extraordinarily grave considerations make it defendable in relation to the motivations of free speech.
The King, or the lord, decides, and the anti-war protesters don’t even have the right to disagree to these decisions. Instead, their resistance is labeled as criminal, dangerous and terroristic, and the security police knocks on the door of the filmmaker in Skien and throws him in jail. Apparently, this creates More Openness, More Democracy… |
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> destroying the balance i'd kept
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