Martin Okasili
Father, Educationalist, Musician, collaborator
Reading the Riots. The Nietzsche Family Circus. Slavoj Zizek. Occupy first. Demands come later. What to do after the occupations of Wall Street and beyond – the protests that started far away, reached the centre and are now, reinforced, rolling back around the world?
One of the great dangers the protesters face is that they will fall in love with themselves. In a San Francisco echo of the Wall Street occupation this week, a man addressed the crowd with an invitation to participate as if it was a happening in the hippy style of the 60s: "They are asking us what is our programme.