occupy anthropology; a sideways look at the occupy movement

1. Contested land 2. Every dialectically presentedhistorical circumstancepolarizes itself and becomes aforce field in which theconfrontation between its fore-history and after-history isplayed out.(Arcades Project) 3. History, to be written by a world stupefied at our erasinaction on climate change, poverty and globalinequality, will record that Occupy the London StockExchange saw the coming storm an helped sound thewarning bell. History will also note that the establishedmen and women of our age responded with dismissivescorn and references to their deluded idea of "commonsense". (Occupied Times editorial, 1 March 2012)