Total Occupation Occupation. It is a word that possesses weight, gravity, a force with a divergent trajectory from so-called ‘history.’ Instead of losing meaning as it is used over and over again, its meaning is further compounded, multiplied, and sharpened, gaining momentum and superseding its own point of departure. This provisional ‘ground’ is absolute refusal of the capitalist totality, an abstract negation that negates everything in order to move onto more determinate goals and objectives. The more it is utilized as a strategy, the more it differentiates its own definition, becoming a collective desiring machine, concretizing itself through expansion rather than mere preservation. An occupation is the seizing of both spatial and temporal realities that are not necessarily non-existent, but in-existent, an interstitial ‘place’ that splits the totality through a manifestation of a minimal difference: between the ephemeral present and the eternal present. These two pathways present a radical choice between the politics of mere affirmation (of the capitalist present) and the politics of subtraction (of the possible communist ‘present’), the latter making itself apparent by a doubling of its content, or rather, the imposition of connection between form and content.
