Sunday, December 21, 2008

The anomalous wave-turin make like Godard's supermarket situationists and expropriate a bookstore

Students went in front of the bookstore and opened a banner saying “Against the crisis: self-reduction - Anomalous Wave Turin”. They had few hundreds of second hand books which they gave to passers-by. Finally the students went inside the bookshop, symbolically occupying it, demanding and taking few hundreds of books, which were later distributed to people for free.

“In this way, the Way wanted to protest against the high costs of books, but also to show in practice that another form of circulation of knowledge is possible, free of charge, based on valuation of the use value, against commercial distribution and capitalistic speculation which subordinates knowledge to the logic of money, profit, value of exchange”.

How amazing would it be if folks would do something like this at NYC's chain bookstores? At the NYU bookstore? At Amazon.com's union busting warehouses?

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