Married To Corporate America

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Married To Corporate America:

A New Political Experiment To Test the Limits of Corporate Personhood in America

Married To Corporate America is a new political/social experiment meant to shine a light on the bizarre idea of corporate personhood and to question its very validity. The primary question posed by this project is that if corporations are people then should they be allowed to legally marry. In the following video I invite any American corporation to propose for my hand in marriage by sending me an email at

marriedtocorporate@gmail.com 

It is my goal to become legal married to an American corporation sometime with in the coming year. Any corporation, large and small may apply. Here is the link to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d7yyP0C03Y

And this is a link to the projects blog

http://marriedtocorporateamerica.wordpress.com/

Leon Pease (Project Creator/Playwright/Actor) Leon Pease is a NYC based actor/writer. His many projects include working with the OWS group the Tax Dodgers as well as being the founder and artistic director of Theatre in a VAN! His writing credits with Theatre in a VAN! include, The Big Spill: A 10-Minute Musical about the BP Oil Spill, Gilgord, King of the Moontopians, The Subatomic Solution: A 10-Minute Musical Solution to the Conflict in the Middle East, and a new adaption of Bertolt Brecht’s The Elephant Calf. Last September he premiered his first full-length play Luminescent Blues at Theatre for the New City’s Dream Up festival. He also recently directed and produced a short play of his titled It’s A Wonder Anyone Gets Anything Done Anymore… for the Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Spring One Act Competition. Leon has also co-written for projects with the Glass Bandits Theatre Company, which include In Memoriam: A Recession Play in 13 Acts, Hecuba the Bitch of Cynossema and The Best Laid Plans of Seamen.

Concentric Circles

Occupennial co-organizer Paul McLean penned this essay on concentric circles and the structural dynamics of #OWS, plus related phenomena for his blog AFH2011. To read the essay, click the images above or below.

[NOTE: The final pre-publication draft version is HERE.]

Concentric Circles: A Conjecture about the Dimensional Nature of the Fast-Spreading Global Occupation, in Text and Images

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Interdiction is always a rule of the State; impossibility is a regulation of the real.” – Alain Badiou, “Highly Speculative Realism on the Concept of Democracy”

We’re living in a Post-9.17 World.

Two months + 1 after the #OccupyWallStreet movement (and it is one, now) congealed in Zuccotti Park, a sketch of the New World Order is in order. Last August, those of us who took Badiou’s seminar at the European Graduate School witnessed this trajabadore philosopher map infinity and finitude, using set theory, to assert a vision of the universe in which series of derivative values constituted a whole that itself existed as a beautiful, animated array of derivative components. The Omega of Badiou and the sets of finite phenomena, which are Its expression, are hinged in a conjecture. #OWS is such a conjecture: a being-event that impossibly de-regulates the real, and defies the parameters of superimposition. But how does such a moment work?

It’s my contention that Time is the only Object, and everything else is Subject. I asked Badiou during a coffee break whether Philosophy needed Art. It had become clear to me that art required the love of wisdom, the evaluative functions of philosophy, after encounters with the likes of Kittler, Lotringer, Agamben, Ronnell, Badiou and others. What wasn’t clear was whether philosophy, which could think about anything it seems, needed art. Badiou said, “Philosophy needs art, now.” I would suggest that #OWS proves this, because perceptually we appear to be spanning dimensions, and on this side of the void that attaches to progressive perceptual consciousness, we seem to have returned to the beginning. In the beginning there were concentric circles...