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The global occupy protest movement is proliferating by "contagion,
epidemics, battlefields, and catastrophes".[1] Furthermore, it
materialises and disperses in multiple ephemeral processes of
transformation that construct a common for the multitude of protestors.
The common produced by the global occupy movement is not a mutually
shared opposition to the capitalist crisis, nor a collective identity
(of the "indignados" or of the 99%), nor a consensual political project
(for real, authentic democracy). The common does not even embody an
identical strategy of occupying public space, but rather to a series of
becomings that question established categorizations and taxonomies that
normalize the production of subjectivities and the organisation of life.
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