04 January 2012
#Occupy
In an odd way, the material culture of the various Occupy movements has already become commodified: thanks to one of our always helpful U.S. dealers, we've had an arrival of posters, pamphlets, newspapers and other ephemera from Occupy Wall Street, Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley, Harvard and Boston. We'll get them catalogued and available for current and future researchers as soon as possible; they may also come in useful for exhibitions in the future.
There are also efforts to create a digital archive at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. And, in case you missed it, there was this fine piece by George Packer in the New Yorker (5 December). Both links underscore the importance of the use of digital, as well as more traditional, media.
[M.J.S.]