Abstract

Occupy Wall Street uprooted the vacant ambivalence not only of our parks and squares but our frustrated hearts and minds. “Occupy Nothing” is an inquiry into the logic of OWS’s formal emergence through the aesthetics of tent-city and its images of abjection. Beginning with a discussion of Fredric Jameson’s theorizations of “utopian impulse,” this essay argues that a dark way lies forward for a politics aesthetically committed to a spectacular generalization of crisis and poverty.