Digital representation and Occupy Wall Street’s challenge to political subjectivity

What is it about?

This article considers the strategies of digital representation used by members of the Occupy Wall Street movement across a variety of contexts. These strategies were used to document the workings of the movement, challenge police power, and adopt new political projects as a means for revising the Occupy identity in the face of new challenges.

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Why is it important?

As a precursor to contemporary non-hierarchical social movements, the Occupy Wall Street movement provided a means for developing a political subjectivity based in representation that escaped contemporary modes of liberal democratic subjectivity. These modes of representation offer a means for challenging existing power structures from outside of seemingly compromised modes of political representation and deliberation.