Ok, he didn’t use that term. But as he strikes many of the same notes I heard in Britt’s previous post, I’ve excerpted a bit from his essay in the Guardian this week (it’s worth reading in its entirety):
What one should resist at this stage is precisely such a quick translation of the energy of the protest into a set of concrete pragmatic demands. Yes, the protests did create a vacuum – a vacuum in the field of hegemonic ideology, and time is needed to fill this vacuum in a proper way, as it is a pregnant vacuum, an opening for the truly new.
Got me thinking, Alex.
And thanks for posting SZ’s article — a good read, and I think you are right that there’s something similar going on: http://cas-csid.cas.unt.edu/?p=2040&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=candidate-messages-of-the-occupy-movement.