[ecrea] The Occupation Cookbook Released

*The Occupation Cookbook*
or the Model of the Occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences in Zagreb
Introductions by Marc Bousquet and Boris Buden
Translated from the Croatian by Drago Markisa
http://www.minorcompositions.info/occupationcookbook.html

The Occupation Cookbook is a "manual" that describes the organization of
the student occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
that took place in the spring of 2009 and lasted for 35 days. It was
written for two reasons: to record what happened, and to present the
particular organization of this action in such a way that it may be of
use to other activists and members of various collectives if they decide
to undertake a similar action.

What does it mean to "occupy" a school? A school occupation is not, as
the corporate media like to portray it, a hostile takeover. A school
occupation is an action by those who are already its inhabitants --
students, faculty, and staff -- and those for whom the school exists.
(Which is to say for a public institution, the public itself.) The
actions termed "occupations" of a public institution, then, are really
re-occupations, a renovation and reopening to the public of a space long
captured and stolen by the private interests of wealth and privilege.
The goal of this renovation and reopening is to inhabit school spaces as
fully as possible, to make them truly habitable -- to make the school a
place fit for living. -- Marc Bousquet, from the Introduction

PDF available freely online.

Released by Minor Compositions, London / New York / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions&  provocations drawing
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of
everyday life.

--
Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomedia Editorial Collective
http://www.autonomedia.org
http://www.minorcompositions.info

"Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the master's rule." - subRosa Collective



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