ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a contemporary, participatory understanding of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), and its latter continuities, as an epochal, rhizomatic learning process of international leftist resistance to the failures of liberal democratic governance at the state and (inter)national scales. It describes how the OWS movement represented both a continuation of the long tradition of occupation tactics in public spaces in leftist politics and, simultaneously, the largest rupture in the business-as-usual politics that the last forty years of neoliberal policies have engendered. In the political landscape that is the sprawling geography of the United States, the OWS movement is the largest, most prominent outburst of radical fury to come onto the scene in North America since the cultural and political revolution(s) of the 1960s. Many accounts of the rise of Occupy Wall Street point to the Internet post published on July 13, 2011, by the culture-jamming Canadian magazine AdBusters.
