Re: <nettime> artistic director of dOCUMENTA 13 welcomes occupy movement

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@yahoo.com>]

It looks like the Occupy thingie is on its way to be coopted, romanticized, historicized, adopted into folk and commercial art/culture, before it actually achieved anything. Can't wait for the 'addopt the occupier for $1/day' NGO.

It's the perfect circle - we'll be discussing, PhD-ing, publishing, movie-making and T-shirting the revolution that never happened. 

Welcome to the dessert of the real.

> This hug of the 'movement' is surely a good stroke and it re-claims
> the Joseph Beuys-style Greenness in double meaning: don't be violent,
> believe in the German native soil, be a good democrat, clean up your
> waste, shut up and discuss nothing but your enraged


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